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Question: In the last 12 months, how many days of leave from your work, if any, did you take altogether (do not include maternity or sick leaves or similar types of leave)?
Choices: "None" "1-5 days" "6-10 days" "11-20 days" "21-30 days" "More than 30 days"
Data: % of "21-30 days" "More than 30 days" in those answering any of those answers
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden65.6%
2 Finland58.0%
3 Norway55.1%
4 Switzerland55.0%
5 Belgium44.0%
6 United Kingdom38.7%
7 Poland 36.5%
8 Latvia33.8%
9 Hungary33.7%
10 Germany30.8%
11 Czech Republic28.2%
12 Slovenia27.2%
13 Australia25.3%
14 Austria24.7%
15 New Zealand24.0%
16 Ireland22.7%
17 Slovakia22.3%
18 France20.3%
19 Mexico20.1%
20 United States12.2%
21 Israel10.7%
22 Republic of Korea7.1%
23 Japan6.9%
24 Chile2.7%

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 14 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 1.794178 X +6.267
Correlation coefficient (r)0.554
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.307

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 54276.306729 X +30327.182
Correlation coefficient (r)0.371
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.138

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 1.208106 X +80.099
Correlation coefficient (r)0.071
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.345707 X +1.705
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.167
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 1.242077 X +13.301
Correlation coefficient (r)0.042
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002