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Question: When you are involved in free time activities to what extent do they enable you to be the kind of person you really are?
Choices: "Very much" "A lot" "Somewhat" "A little" "Not at all"
Data: % of "Very much" "A lot"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United Kingdom62.7%
2 United States62.6%
3 Australia62.4%
4 Republic of Korea62.3%
5 Sweden56.7%
6 Germany56.4%
7 France52.5%
8 Japan 36.9%

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 = 2.675290 X +5.257
Correlation coefficient (r)0.451
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.203
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 59247.873907 X +17710.546
Correlation coefficient (r)0.433
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.187
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -13.190162 X +89.323
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.522
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.272
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.052133 X +1.527
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.015
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 4.753998 X +12.461
Correlation coefficient (r)0.070
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005