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Question: In the past 12 months, how often, if at all, have you taken part in activities of groups or associations for leisure, sports or culture?
Choices: "Once a week or more" "One to three times a month" "Several times in the past year" "Once in the past year" "Never"
Data: % of "Never"
Period:
Area:
21 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Lithuania68.8%
2 Japan56.6%
3 Hungary55.4%
4 Spain55.1%
5 Austria50.1%
6 Slovenia48.6%
7 Czech Republic48.2%
8 Israel45.7%
9 Mexico45.1%
10 Germany40.1%
11 United Kingdom38.7%
12 United States37.7%
13 Slovakia35.6%
14 France34.6%
15 Finland33.0%
16 Iceland32.2%
17 Switzerland 31.6%
18 Sweden30.3%
19 Australia29.9%
20 New Zealand25.9%
21 Denmark25.8%

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 17 countries.

Source
ISSP 2017

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -2.299548 X +7.818
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.567
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.321

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -115441.483256 X +93977.928
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.621
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.386

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -12.576036 X +85.323
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.370
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.137

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -0.605771 X +1.917
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.199
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 8.143261 X +7.026
Correlation coefficient (r)0.265
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.070