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Question: If you could change the way you spend your time, how would you change the time with your friends?
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 Norway72.0%
2 Canada67.1%
3 United States65.4%
4 Sweden 65.3%
5 France65.2%
6 Netherlands59.3%
7 United Kingdom59.1%
8 Switzerland59.0%
9 Germany58.1%
10 Italy54.5%
11 New Zealand54.2%
12 Israel54.0%
13 Portugal53.6%
14 Denmark53.4%
15 Japan48.5%
16 Spain42.3%
17 Slovenia41.3%
18 Poland38.6%
19 Czech Republic37.4%
19 Hungary37.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. 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 = 2.109963 X +5.632
Correlation coefficient (r)0.474
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.225

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 171101.877512 X -44609.454
Correlation coefficient (r)0.754
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.569

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 12.913097 X +74.020
Correlation coefficient (r)0.478
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.228

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.313577 X +1.444
Correlation coefficient (r)0.088
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 1.682105 X +8.472
Correlation coefficient (r)0.063
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004