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Question: How often do you use your free time to establish useful contacts?
Choices: "Very often" "Often" "Sometimes" "Seldom" "Never"
Data: % of "Very often" "Often"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 United States31.0%
3 Germany27.8%
4 France 22.1%
5 Japan18.6%
6 United Kingdom13.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 1.318217 X +6.274
Correlation coefficient (r)0.313
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.098

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 184970.931448 X +10738.587
Correlation coefficient (r)0.723
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.523

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -28.317788 X +87.697
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.794
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.630

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 0.734033 X +1.384
Correlation coefficient (r)0.250
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 24.815969 X +4.687
Correlation coefficient (r)0.559
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.312