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Question: How difficult would it be for you to take an hour or two off during working hours, to take care of personal or family matters?
Choices: "Not difficult at all" "Not too difficult" "Somewhat difficult" "Very difficult"
Data: % of "Not difficult at all" "Not too difficult"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden78.6%
2 United Kingdom73.2%
3 Australia72.7%
4 United States71.1%
5 France65.2%
6 Canada63.4%
7 Republic of Korea61.8%
8 Japan 61.7%
9 Germany56.6%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 3.969904 X +4.133
Correlation coefficient (r)0.567
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.321

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 95191.029266 X -12597.710
Correlation coefficient (r)0.597
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.356

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -5.803697 X +85.741
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.197
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.039

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.745342 X +0.315
Correlation coefficient (r)0.439
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.193

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -21.788005 X +29.407
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.270
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.073