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Question: In your free time, do you prefer to be with other people or do you prefer to be by yourself?
Choices: "Most of time with other people" "More with other people than alone" "More alone than with other people" "Most of time alone"
Data: % of "More alone than with other people" "Most of time alone"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan49.8%
2 Australia45.8%
3 United States45.0%
4 France 35.2%
5 Republic of Korea34.0%
6 United Kingdom31.5%
7 Sweden31.3%
8 Germany27.3%

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 data8
Regression equation
Y = -1.428554 X +7.201
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.266
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.071
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 42888.122786 X +33945.315
Correlation coefficient (r)0.233
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.054
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.673618 X +81.572
Correlation coefficient (r)0.022
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.036538 X +1.527
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.009
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 11.720451 X +7.648
Correlation coefficient (r)0.218
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048