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Question: How much enjoyment do you get from taking part in physical activities such as sports, going to the gym, going for a walk?
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 Norway79.5%
2 New Zealand76.8%
3 Switzerland70.0%
4 Finland 69.7%
5 Australia68.0%
6 Sweden67.7%
7 United Kingdom64.8%
8 France64.5%
9 Cyprus62.7%
10 Belgium60.2%
11 Ireland59.4%
12 Germany58.4%
13 United States58.3%
14 Latvia54.2%
15 Czech Republic53.3%
16 Austria52.7%
17 Slovenia51.9%
18 Slovakia46.1%
19 Taiwan44.9%
20 Israel44.7%
21 Republic of Korea43.9%
22 Argentina43.2%
23 Mexico42.4%
24 Croatia41.7%
25 Philippines40.6%
26 Uruguay40.3%
27 Chile36.5%
28 Poland32.2%
28 Russian Federation32.2%
30 South Africa29.6%
31 Japan28.5%
32 Hungary27.9%
33 Dominican Republic24.3%
34 Bulgaria23.7%

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 = 3.537868 X +4.767
Correlation coefficient (r)0.832
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.692

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 124423.341557 X -24872.288
Correlation coefficient (r)0.754
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.569

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 17.658540 X +69.947
Correlation coefficient (r)0.626
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.392

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -0.667139 X +2.021
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.265
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.070

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -2.971085 X +14.910
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.076
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006