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Question: How often do you attend sporting events as a spectator 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 Israel42.2%
2 Mexico27.2%
3 Ireland25.6%
4 Slovakia22.7%
5 Austria22.6%
6 Chile17.6%
7 Australia16.9%
8 Czech Republic16.8%
8 Slovenia16.8%
10 Belgium16.6%
11 United States15.6%
12 Germany15.5%
13 Latvia14.9%
14 New Zealand14.5%
15 Switzerland14.2%
16 Norway14.0%
17 Republic of Korea13.8%
18 Sweden13.0%
19 Hungary11.9%
19 Poland11.9%
21 United Kingdom11.5%
22 France9.8%
23 Finland7.8%
24 Japan 3.1%

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 = 1.282967 X +6.537
Correlation coefficient (r)0.219
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 26717.742789 X +42233.048
Correlation coefficient (r)0.076
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -9.312110 X +81.497
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.182
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 3.450308 X +1.057
Correlation coefficient (r)0.733
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.537

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -21.226166 X +14.398
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.460
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.212