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Question: In the last 12 months, how many days of leave from your work, if any, did you take altogether (do not include maternity or sick leaves or similar types of leave)?
Choices: "None" "1-5 days" "6-10 days" "11-20 days" "21-30 days" "More than 30 days"
Data: % of "None" "1-5 days" in those answering any of those answers
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile90.4%
2 France71.7%
3 Japan66.2%
4 United States63.2%
5 Israel63.0%
6 Republic of Korea62.6%
7 Mexico59.2%
8 Austria56.7%
9 Hungary56.6%
10 New Zealand50.1%
11 Germany48.3%
12 Ireland45.0%
13 Latvia41.7%
14 Australia39.1%
15 United Kingdom35.0%
16 Poland33.4%
17 Norway28.4%
18 Finland26.8%
19 Slovenia25.9%
20 Slovakia25.4%
21 Czech Republic24.3%
22 Belgium22.9%
23 Switzerland22.7%
24 Sweden 15.9%

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 14 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -1.015673 X +7.204
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.439
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.193

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -35260.454580 X +62433.441
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.254
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.065

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -1.786534 X +80.758
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.089
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.130211 X +1.568
Correlation coefficient (r)0.070
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -1.781899 X +11.689
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.098
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010