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Question: In your free time, how often do you feel rushed?
Choices: "Very often" "Often" "Sometimes" "Rarely" "Never"
Data: % of "Very often" "Often"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States35.4%
2 Australia30.3%
3 United Kingdom28.9%
4 Sweden22.2%
5 Germany18.0%
6 Japan 15.7%
7 Republic of Korea12.5%
8 France8.8%

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 = 3.244201 X +6.073
Correlation coefficient (r)0.581
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.338
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 103266.950291 X +29046.047
Correlation coefficient (r)0.801
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.642
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -14.497822 X +84.976
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.610
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.372
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.940846 X +1.295
Correlation coefficient (r)0.295
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.087
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -25.873061 X +20.706
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.404
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.163