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Question: In your free time, do you prefer to be with other people or do you prefer to be by yourself?
Choices: "Most of time with other people" "More with other people than alone" "More alone than with other people" "Most of time alone"
Data: % of "More alone than with other people" "Most of time alone"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan49.8%
2 Finland47.8%
3 Australia45.8%
4 United States45.0%
5 New Zealand39.8%
6 Belgium39.5%
7 Czech Republic36.4%
8 France35.2%
9 Republic of Korea34.0%
10 Slovakia32.5%
11 Chile31.7%
12 United Kingdom31.5%
13 Sweden31.3%
14 Israel30.6%
15 Norway30.4%
16 Latvia30.0%
17 Hungary29.7%
17 Switzerland 29.7%
19 Slovenia28.1%
20 Mexico27.8%
21 Germany27.3%
22 Austria26.8%
23 Ireland24.2%
24 Poland23.1%

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 = 0.840597 X +6.466
Correlation coefficient (r)0.139
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 20674.355643 X +39686.675
Correlation coefficient (r)0.057
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 15.596067 X +74.708
Correlation coefficient (r)0.295
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.087
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.517322 X +1.801
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.106
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 16.087833 X +5.475
Correlation coefficient (r)0.337
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.114