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Question: If you could change the way you spend your time, how would you change the time in a paid job?
Choices: "Much more time" "A bit more time" "Same time as now" "A bit less time" "Much less time"
Data: % of "A bit less time" "Much less time"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden53.5%
2 Canada49.4%
3 Finland46.6%
4 Denmark46.1%
5 New Zealand45.1%
6 United Kingdom44.9%
7 Czech Republic43.1%
8 Norway38.3%
9 France36.8%
10 Australia36.1%
11 Ireland35.5%
12 Belgium33.1%
13 Japan 31.4%
14 United States31.1%
15 Latvia30.2%
16 Switzerland29.7%
17 Slovenia28.0%
18 Spain24.6%
19 Germany21.0%
20 Portugal20.0%
21 Israel16.7%
22 Hungary16.3%
23 Republic of Korea13.8%
24 Mexico11.6%

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 = 2.384980 X +6.012
Correlation coefficient (r)0.590
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.348

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 83072.869514 X +22494.146
Correlation coefficient (r)0.387
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.150

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 10.678763 X +77.221
Correlation coefficient (r)0.349
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.122

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.094972 X +1.646
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.031
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.622026 X +10.415
Correlation coefficient (r)0.020
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000