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Question: To what extent do the following conditions prevent you from doing the free time activities you would like to do? - Need to take care of someone (elderly, children, ...)
Choices: "Very much" "To a large extent" "To some extent" "Not at all"
Data: % of "Very much" "To a large extent" "To some extent"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea63.3%
2 Norway44.0%
3 Austria42.8%
4 Chile42.7%
5 Mexico39.3%
6 Slovakia39.2%
7 United States38.6%
8 Finland38.3%
9 Latvia38.2%
10 Belgium38.1%
11 France36.5%
12 Germany36.4%
13 Australia35.6%
14 Slovenia35.3%
15 New Zealand35.0%
16 Israel33.2%
17 United Kingdom32.3%
18 Czech Republic31.0%
19 Sweden 30.9%
20 Poland30.3%
21 Ireland28.4%
22 Japan27.5%
23 Switzerland27.4%
24 Hungary17.5%

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 = -0.259641 X +6.843
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.048
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -16000.167611 X +52392.435
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.050
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 5.070830 X +78.137
Correlation coefficient (r)0.108
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -1.487152 X +2.161
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.345
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.119

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 18.306535 X +4.318
Correlation coefficient (r)0.432
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.187