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Question: Which of the following statements best describes how your working hours are decided?
Choices: "Starting and finishing times are decided by my employer and I cannot change them on my own" "I can decide the time I start and finish work, within certain limits" "I am entirely free to decide when I start and finish work"
Data: % of "I can decide the time I start and finish work, within certain limits" "I am entirely free to decide when I start and finish work"
Period:
Area:
18 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland67.8%
2 Denmark59.4%
3 Canada58.2%
4 New Zealand56.7%
5 Italy52.3%
6 France51.4%
7 Germany51.0%
7 Norway51.0%
9 Netherlands50.7%
10 United States 48.5%
11 Israel45.0%
12 Portugal44.0%
13 Czech Republic43.6%
14 Poland40.6%
15 Japan40.4%
16 Spain39.0%
17 Slovenia38.4%
18 Hungary37.4%

Note
Those who do not work/ Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 20 countries.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 4.628632 X +4.581
Correlation coefficient (r)0.720
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.518

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 202118.758910 X -51229.756
Correlation coefficient (r)0.759
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.576

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = 12.036338 X +75.107
Correlation coefficient (r)0.411
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.169

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -0.120168 X +1.643
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.028
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data18
Regression equation
Y = -6.473795 X +15.382
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.153
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023