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Question: On a normal school day, how much time do you spend before or after school doing each of these things? - I play sports.
Choices: "No time" "Less than 1 hour" "1-2 hours" "More than 2 but less 4 hours" "4 or more hours"
Data: % of "More than 2 but less 4 hours" "4 or more hours"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States38.3%
2 Canada35.6%
3 United Kingdom 34.5%
4 Italy31.6%
5 Australia30.6%
6 Sweden28.9%
7 Japan28.0%
8 Republic of Korea4.9%

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
TIMSS 2007

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 2.326602 X +5.976
Correlation coefficient (r)0.516
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.266
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 89821.458039 X +23681.866
Correlation coefficient (r)0.577
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.333
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -12.077134 X +85.608
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.487
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.237
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 2.378031 X +0.732
Correlation coefficient (r)0.819
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.671
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -34.308642 X +21.602
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.706
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.498