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Question: When you are involved in free time activities to what extent do they enable you to strengthen your relationships with other people?
Choices: "Very much" "A lot" "Somewhat" "A little" "Not at all"
Data: % of "Very much" "A lot"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea74.5%
2 United States54.7%
3 United Kingdom52.3%
4 Australia51.4%
5 Germany48.9%
6 France43.4%
7 Sweden42.2%
8 Japan 31.4%

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 = -0.876330 X +7.207
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.208
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.043

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -10626.436197 X +56519.903
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.109
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -3.736887 X +83.725
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.209
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.044

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -1.456826 X +2.224
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.605
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.366

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 30.192048 X +0.099
Correlation coefficient (r)0.626
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.392