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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:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan49.8%
2 Finland47.8%
3 Australia45.8%
4 United States45.0%
5 New Zealand39.8%
6 Belgium39.5%
7 Taiwan37.1%
8 Czech Republic36.4%
9 France35.2%
10 Republic of Korea34.0%
11 Slovakia32.5%
12 Argentina32.0%
13 Chile31.7%
14 United Kingdom31.5%
15 Sweden31.3%
16 Israel30.6%
17 Norway30.4%
18 Uruguay30.3%
19 Philippines30.2%
20 Latvia30.0%
21 Hungary29.7%
21 Switzerland29.7%
23 South Africa 29.6%
24 Russian Federation29.2%
25 Slovenia28.1%
26 Mexico27.8%
27 Germany27.3%
28 Austria26.8%
28 Croatia26.8%
30 Ireland24.2%
31 Bulgaria23.1%
31 Poland23.1%
33 Dominican Republic19.2%
34 Cyprus17.6%

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 204 countries.
Source
ISSP 2007

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 3.276589 X +5.486
Correlation coefficient (r)0.370
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.137
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 95930.281020 X +6589.651
Correlation coefficient (r)0.279
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.078
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 20.271027 X +72.350
Correlation coefficient (r)0.343
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.118
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -0.860649 X +1.960
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.163
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 21.940931 X +6.470
Correlation coefficient (r)0.267
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.071