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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statement: "There is too much sport on TV."
Choices: "Agree strongly" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Disagree strongly"
Data: % of "Agree strongly" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines62.5%
2 Norway52.4%
3 Dominican Republic48.5%
4 South Africa47.5%
5 Argentina45.7%
6 Chile44.6%
7 Mexico42.2%
8 Cyprus36.7%
9 Sweden34.5%
10 Australia34.1%
11 Uruguay32.3%
12 United States32.0%
13 United Kingdom31.4%
14 Finland 30.8%
15 Bulgaria30.7%
16 Austria28.6%
17 Israel27.1%
18 France27.0%
19 Ireland26.4%
20 Russian Federation26.3%
21 Republic of Korea23.9%
21 Slovakia23.9%
23 Belgium23.1%
23 New Zealand23.1%
25 Czech Republic22.8%
26 Germany21.9%
27 Switzerland21.4%
28 Taiwan18.6%
29 Hungary17.4%
30 Croatia17.2%
31 Latvia17.1%
32 Slovenia15.1%
33 Poland13.4%
34 Japan11.9%

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 = -0.884926 X +6.794
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.161
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -31492.766181 X +46523.744
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.147
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -12.793459 X +82.627
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.346
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.120

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.728722 X +1.167
Correlation coefficient (r)0.523
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.274

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -22.329503 X +20.147
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.434
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.188