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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 "21-30 days" "More than 30 days" in those answering any of those answers
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden65.6%
2 United Kingdom38.7%
3 Germany30.8%
4 Australia25.3%
5 France20.3%
6 United States12.2%
7 Republic of Korea7.1%
8 Japan 6.9%

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 = 2.033693 X +6.244
Correlation coefficient (r)0.764
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.584

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 22690.307257 X +45354.344
Correlation coefficient (r)0.369
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.136

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.622781 X +82.024
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.055
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.700586 X +1.316
Correlation coefficient (r)0.460
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.212

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -14.241531 X +18.833
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.466
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.217