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Question: In the last 12 months, how many days of leave from your work, if any, did you take altogether (do not include maternity or sick leaves or similar types of leave)?
Choices: "None" "1-5 days" "6-10 days" "11-20 days" "21-30 days" "More than 30 days"
Data: % of "None" "1-5 days" in those answering any of those answers
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France71.7%
2 Japan 66.2%
3 United States63.2%
4 Republic of Korea62.6%
5 Germany48.3%
6 Australia39.1%
7 United Kingdom35.0%
8 Sweden15.9%

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 = -1.929304 X +7.740
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.708
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.501

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -26145.551655 X +64360.765
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.415
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.172

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.233561 X +81.980
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.020
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.356186 X +1.676
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.228
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 12.152570 X +9.043
Correlation coefficient (r)0.389
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.151