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Question: In your free time, how often do you find yourself thinking about work?
Choices: "Very often" "Often" "Sometimes" "Rarely" "Never"
Data: % of "Very often" "Often"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines71.2%
2 South Africa53.2%
3 Slovenia52.3%
4 Poland50.1%
5 Uruguay47.6%
6 Croatia46.8%
7 Argentina45.7%
8 Hungary45.3%
9 Israel44.8%
10 Bulgaria44.4%
11 Latvia42.1%
12 Chile41.4%
13 Norway39.5%
14 Mexico39.2%
15 Sweden36.9%
16 Slovakia36.3%
17 United States36.1%
18 Germany35.5%
19 Cyprus34.9%
20 Australia34.8%
20 Belgium34.8%
22 Czech Republic34.7%
23 New Zealand34.6%
24 Republic of Korea32.3%
25 Finland 31.3%
26 Russian Federation29.3%
27 France28.9%
28 Ireland28.7%
29 Dominican Republic28.2%
30 Austria26.6%
31 Taiwan26.2%
32 United Kingdom26.0%
33 Japan24.3%
34 Switzerland23.0%

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 = -2.430312 X +7.450
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.373
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.139
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -129490.469218 X +86165.039
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.512
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.262
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -23.753000 X +87.851
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.539
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.291
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.834234 X +0.986
Correlation coefficient (r)0.466
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.217
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -5.924077 X +15.688
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.097
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009