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Question: How difficult would it be for you to take an hour or two off during working hours, to take care of personal or family matters?
Choices: "Not difficult at all" "Not too difficult" "Somewhat difficult" "Very difficult"
Data: % of "Not difficult at all" "Not too difficult"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 New Zealand80.2%
2 Sweden78.6%
3 Ireland77.6%
4 Denmark75.9%
5 Switzerland75.6%
6 United Kingdom73.2%
7 Australia72.7%
8 Finland72.6%
9 United States71.1%
10 Norway69.2%
11 Portugal68.7%
12 Slovenia65.6%
13 France65.2%
14 Canada63.4%
15 Republic of Korea61.8%
16 Japan 61.7%
16 Mexico61.7%
18 Hungary61.1%
19 Israel57.9%
20 Germany56.6%
21 Spain53.5%
22 Czech Republic52.3%
23 Latvia51.3%
24 Belgium49.6%

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 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 2.355398 X +5.242
Correlation coefficient (r)0.447
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.200

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 154889.260837 X -52188.397
Correlation coefficient (r)0.553
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.306

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 12.750137 X +72.326
Correlation coefficient (r)0.320
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.102

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.124249 X +1.697
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.031
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -2.824984 X +12.474
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.069
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005