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Question: If you could change the way you spend your time, how would you change the time in leisure activities?
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:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France80.7%
2 New Zealand79.1%
3 Canada75.8%
4 Sweden74.9%
5 United Kingdom71.7%
6 Australia71.4%
7 Norway71.3%
8 Finland69.3%
9 Belgium66.3%
10 United States65.2%
11 Hungary64.2%
12 Czech Republic62.4%
13 Ireland60.7%
14 Denmark59.2%
15 Republic of Korea59.0%
16 Israel54.7%
17 Latvia54.5%
17 Switzerland54.5%
19 Germany 53.1%
20 Spain53.0%
21 Slovenia49.3%
22 Japan49.1%
23 Portugal47.4%
24 Mexico46.5%

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 2005

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 2.479500 X +5.306
Correlation coefficient (r)0.463
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.214
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 76967.157442 X +1140.018
Correlation coefficient (r)0.340
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.116
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 5.475210 X +77.531
Correlation coefficient (r)0.214
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.046
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.169414 X +1.696
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.049
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.421762 X +13.183
Correlation coefficient (r)0.009
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000