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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 "None" "1-5 days" in those answering any of those answers
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile90.4%
2 Philippines89.7%
3 South Africa78.2%
4 Dominican Republic77.7%
5 France71.7%
6 Japan66.2%
7 United States63.2%
8 Israel63.0%
9 Argentina62.9%
9 Taiwan62.9%
11 Republic of Korea62.6%
12 Mexico59.2%
13 Austria56.7%
14 Hungary56.6%
15 New Zealand50.1%
16 Russian Federation48.8%
17 Germany48.3%
18 Uruguay46.5%
19 Ireland45.0%
20 Latvia41.7%
21 Bulgaria41.4%
22 Australia39.1%
23 United Kingdom35.0%
24 Poland33.4%
25 Croatia29.9%
26 Norway28.4%
27 Finland 26.8%
28 Slovenia25.9%
29 Slovakia25.4%
30 Czech Republic24.3%
31 Belgium22.9%
32 Switzerland22.7%
33 Sweden15.9%
34 Cyprus10.2%

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 = -1.363645 X +7.181
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.434
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.188

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -43665.857942 X +57989.261
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.358
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.128

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -7.420086 X +82.283
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.354
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.125

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.912412 X +1.256
Correlation coefficient (r)0.487
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.237

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -2.885451 X +14.788
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.099
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010