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Question: How often do you watch TV, DVD, videos in your free time?
Choices: "Daily" "Several times a week" "Several times a month" "Several times a year or less often" "Never"
Data: % of "Daily"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Bulgaria85.7%
2 Croatia84.3%
3 Latvia84.2%
4 Japan82.4%
5 Cyprus81.6%
6 Poland81.1%
7 Hungary81.0%
8 Norway78.4%
9 Taiwan78.2%
10 United Kingdom77.4%
11 Russian Federation76.2%
12 Sweden75.5%
13 Finland74.7%
14 Chile73.0%
15 Ireland72.7%
16 Slovakia72.5%
17 Czech Republic72.2%
18 Australia70.7%
19 New Zealand70.6%
20 Republic of Korea69.9%
21 France69.3%
22 Argentina69.1%
23 United States67.5%
24 Uruguay 67.2%
25 Mexico66.7%
26 Austria65.8%
27 Israel62.8%
28 Germany62.6%
29 Slovenia61.7%
30 Switzerland61.5%
31 Philippines60.3%
32 South Africa59.0%
33 Belgium54.2%
34 Dominican Republic46.5%

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 = -0.651444 X +6.993
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.090
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -10929.221726 X +44916.872
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.039
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 6.074227 X +74.472
Correlation coefficient (r)0.126
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -2.221088 X +3.261
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.515
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.265

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 4.560070 X +10.193
Correlation coefficient (r)0.068
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005