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Question: How much enjoyment do you get from reading books?
Choices: "No enjoyment" "Not much enjoyment" "Some enjoyment" "A fair amount of enjoyment" "A great amount of enjoyment" "I never do that"
Data: % of "A fair amount of enjoyment" "A great amount of enjoyment"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Cyprus91.2%
2 Mexico73.1%
3 Australia70.4%
4 Switzerland70.2%
5 New Zealand66.9%
6 Sweden63.6%
7 South Africa62.7%
8 France62.0%
9 United Kingdom61.1%
10 Hungary58.1%
11 Norway54.8%
12 Germany54.1%
13 Republic of Korea53.4%
14 Czech Republic53.1%
15 Russian Federation52.0%
16 Finland 51.9%
17 Ireland51.5%
18 Belgium50.4%
19 Austria50.2%
20 Uruguay49.3%
21 Argentina45.9%
22 Philippines45.7%
23 Poland43.6%
24 Slovenia41.4%
25 United States41.0%
26 Slovakia37.6%
27 Bulgaria37.2%
27 Croatia37.2%
29 Chile34.7%
30 Latvia30.8%
31 Japan30.3%
31 Taiwan30.3%
33 Dominican Republic28.9%
34 Israel25.3%

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 = 0.953468 X +6.051
Correlation coefficient (r)0.214
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.046

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 43953.383806 X +15044.414
Correlation coefficient (r)0.254
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.065

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 3.988839 X +76.746
Correlation coefficient (r)0.131
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -0.614170 X +2.000
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.226
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.051

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -2.203158 X +14.546
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.052
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003