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Question: If you could change the way you spend your time, how would you change the time in leisure activities?
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:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia72.7%
2 France72.3%
3 New Zealand69.1%
4 Norway66.4%
5 Sweden64.7%
6 United Kingdom64.6%
7 United States64.5%
8 Finland64.3%
9 Belgium62.0%
10 Chile61.8%
11 Latvia61.7%
12 Mexico61.2%
13 Hungary60.5%
14 Republic of Korea59.6%
15 Slovenia59.1%
16 Japan 57.7%
17 Ireland56.4%
18 Czech Republic55.0%
19 Austria53.1%
20 Germany52.2%
21 Israel50.6%
22 Slovakia49.6%
23 Switzerland48.0%
24 Poland43.4%

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 = 1.139024 X +6.070
Correlation coefficient (r)0.191
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 45880.808169 X +19300.168
Correlation coefficient (r)0.128
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 10.166715 X +73.899
Correlation coefficient (r)0.196
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.266584 X +1.786
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.056
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 10.379020 X +4.705
Correlation coefficient (r)0.221
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.049