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Question: If you could change the way you spend your time, how would you change the time with your friends?
Choices: "Much more time" "A bit more time" "Same time as now" "A bit less time" "Much less time"
Data: % of "Much more time" "A bit more time"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Canada69.8%
2 Sweden 68.2%
3 Australia64.5%
4 France63.6%
5 United Kingdom62.9%
6 United States57.0%
7 Germany54.1%
8 Japan42.0%
9 Republic of Korea40.0%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 3.487063 X +4.668
Correlation coefficient (r)0.897
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.805

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 75447.655792 X +6812.088
Correlation coefficient (r)0.573
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.328

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -3.449024 X +83.912
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.154
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 2.080607 X +0.297
Correlation coefficient (r)0.743
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.552

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -23.007489 X +25.199
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.597
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.356