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Question: When you are involved in free time activities to what extent do they enable you to be the kind of person you really are?
Choices: "Very much" "A lot" "Somewhat" "A little" "Not at all"
Data: % of "Very much" "A lot"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland 90.8%
2 Norway83.7%
3 Czech Republic78.7%
4 Slovenia78.0%
5 Cyprus77.3%
5 Dominican Republic77.3%
7 Argentina74.7%
8 Latvia71.2%
9 Uruguay69.4%
10 South Africa67.2%
11 Belgium66.9%
12 Switzerland64.5%
13 New Zealand64.0%
14 United Kingdom62.7%
15 United States62.6%
16 Australia62.4%
17 Ireland62.3%
17 Republic of Korea62.3%
19 Chile60.6%
20 Israel58.4%
21 Slovakia58.1%
22 Hungary57.3%
23 Poland57.2%
24 Sweden56.7%
25 Bulgaria56.6%
26 Germany56.4%
27 Mexico54.5%
28 France52.5%
29 Philippines51.0%
30 Russian Federation48.6%
31 Croatia47.4%
32 Austria46.2%
33 Japan36.9%
34 Taiwan31.2%

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 = 1.265158 X +5.747
Correlation coefficient (r)0.243
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.059
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 25476.799458 X +21371.456
Correlation coefficient (r)0.126
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 2.160403 X +77.418
Correlation coefficient (r)0.057
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.070942 X +1.642
Correlation coefficient (r)0.021
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -1.830435 X +14.575
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.034
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001