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Question: If you could change the way you spend your time, how would you change the time with your friends?
Choices: "Much more time" "A bit more time" "Same time as now" "A bit less time" "Much less time"
Data: % of "Much more time" "A bit more time"
Period:
Area:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Norway72.0%
2 Canada69.8%
3 Sweden68.2%
4 New Zealand66.1%
5 Australia64.5%
6 Finland 63.6%
6 France63.6%
8 United Kingdom62.9%
9 Ireland61.7%
10 Denmark59.9%
11 United States57.0%
12 Switzerland56.8%
13 Germany54.1%
14 Belgium52.3%
15 Cyprus52.1%
16 Czech Republic51.9%
17 Spain50.9%
18 Slovenia48.7%
19 Israel47.6%
20 Portugal46.2%
21 Hungary44.1%
22 Latvia42.2%
23 Japan42.0%
24 Republic of Korea40.0%
25 Bulgaria38.4%
25 Dominican Republic38.4%
25 Russian Federation38.4%
28 South Africa33.9%
29 Mexico32.6%
30 Taiwan30.9%
31 Philippines14.5%

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 207 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 4.011843 X +4.580
Correlation coefficient (r)0.770
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.593

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 145180.086238 X -31863.932
Correlation coefficient (r)0.764
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.584

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 24.512211 X +66.749
Correlation coefficient (r)0.690
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.476

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -1.184534 X +2.263
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.383
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.147

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.537061 X +13.331
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.011
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000