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Question: In your free time, do you prefer to be with other people or do you prefer to be by yourself?
Choices: "Most of time with other people" "More with other people than alone" "More alone than with other people" "Most of time alone"
Data: % of "More alone than with other people" "Most of time alone"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 49.8%
2 Australia45.8%
3 United States45.0%
4 France35.2%
5 Republic of Korea34.0%
6 United Kingdom31.5%
7 Sweden31.3%
8 Germany27.3%

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 = -1.822290 X +7.453
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.286
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.082
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 29009.551301 X +40347.669
Correlation coefficient (r)0.197
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.039
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 3.525515 X +80.541
Correlation coefficient (r)0.130
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.076463 X +1.526
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.021
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 3.887194 X +13.693
Correlation coefficient (r)0.053
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003