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Question: What type of game do you play most frequently?
Choices: various choices of game
Data: % of "Card games (e.g. bridge, rummy, patience, solitaire)" in those playing any game
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States34.7%
2 Germany33.5%
3 Sweden23.7%
4 France21.8%
5 Australia19.9%
6 United Kingdom9.3%
7 Japan 7.3%
8 Republic of Korea4.0%

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 = 3.127037 X +6.167
Correlation coefficient (r)0.694
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.482

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 78008.084488 X +36186.567
Correlation coefficient (r)0.750
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.562

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -13.434462 X +84.452
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.700
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.490

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 1.652057 X +1.179
Correlation coefficient (r)0.641
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.411

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -17.804434 X +18.582
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.345
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.119