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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:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France86.7%
2 Canada76.6%
3 Sweden74.8%
4 United States73.2%
5 United Kingdom70.6%
6 Norway68.6%
7 Germany67.9%
8 Italy66.5%
9 Netherlands65.3%
10 Switzerland64.8%
11 New Zealand62.9%
12 Hungary59.5%
13 Poland58.9%
14 Portugal58.0%
15 Israel57.1%
16 Czech Republic55.8%
17 Japan 55.7%
18 Slovenia47.9%
19 Denmark47.8%
20 Spain45.9%

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 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.490293 X +6.467
Correlation coefficient (r)0.109
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 75747.995634 X +381.530
Correlation coefficient (r)0.332
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.110

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 2.272642 X +79.593
Correlation coefficient (r)0.084
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.077443 X +1.566
Correlation coefficient (r)0.022
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 4.925911 X +6.271
Correlation coefficient (r)0.184
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034