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Question: How often do you play cards or board games in your free time?
Choices: "Daily" "Several times a week" "Several times a month" "Several times a year or less often" "Never"
Data: % of "Daily" "Several times a week" "Several times a month"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Austria 38.2%
2 Switzerland36.0%
3 Germany32.1%
4 Sweden30.6%
5 Slovenia28.3%
6 Latvia26.7%
7 Mexico25.6%
8 United States25.2%
9 France24.5%
10 Hungary22.9%
11 Ireland22.0%
12 New Zealand21.7%
13 Chile21.3%
14 Norway20.9%
14 Slovakia20.9%
16 Israel20.4%
17 United Kingdom20.0%
18 Belgium19.9%
19 Czech Republic19.7%
20 Poland17.8%
21 Australia17.5%
22 Finland17.3%
23 Republic of Korea10.7%
24 Japan9.8%

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 14 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 1.699073 X +6.360
Correlation coefficient (r)0.258
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.067

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 84716.497288 X +27232.844
Correlation coefficient (r)0.215
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.046

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -5.658222 X +81.255
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.099
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.912509 X +1.418
Correlation coefficient (r)0.173
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -11.682998 X +13.569
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.225
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.051