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Question: How often do you attend sporting events as a spectator in your free time?
Choices: "Daily" "Several times a week" "Several times a month" "Several times a year or less often" "Never"
Data: % of "Daily" "Several times a week" "Several times a month"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia16.9%
2 United States15.6%
3 Germany15.5%
4 Republic of Korea13.8%
5 Sweden13.0%
6 United Kingdom11.5%
7 France9.8%
8 Japan 3.1%

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 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 6.816090 X +5.925
Correlation coefficient (r)0.576
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.332

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 164610.565651 X +30810.915
Correlation coefficient (r)0.602
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.362

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -25.322392 X +85.002
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.502
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.252

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.475528 X +1.439
Correlation coefficient (r)0.070
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 6.946073 X +14.289
Correlation coefficient (r)0.051
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003