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Question: Please indicate how important the following reasons are for you to take part in sports or games. - To compete against others
Choices: "Very important" "Somewhat important" "Not very important" "Not important"
Data: % of "Very important"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Dominican Republic50.3%
2 South Africa30.7%
3 Uruguay20.5%
4 Mexico16.4%
5 Ireland16.3%
6 Chile15.9%
7 Croatia12.3%
8 Russian Federation12.2%
9 New Zealand12.0%
10 United States11.7%
11 Czech Republic11.1%
12 Latvia11.0%
13 Argentina10.3%
14 Israel10.2%
15 Austria9.6%
16 Slovenia8.5%
17 Bulgaria7.8%
18 Poland7.6%
19 Slovakia7.3%
20 United Kingdom7.2%
21 Philippines7.0%
22 Cyprus6.5%
23 Hungary6.1%
24 Australia5.5%
25 Germany4.7%
26 France4.6%
27 Republic of Korea4.5%
28 Switzerland4.0%
29 Sweden3.9%
30 Belgium3.8%
31 Japan3.0%
31 Norway3.0%
33 Taiwan2.7%
34 Finland 2.3%

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 = -3.006839 X +6.840
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.418
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.175

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -103895.136829 X +47859.455
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.372
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.138

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -25.320729 X +81.444
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.526
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.277

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 2.107138 X +1.465
Correlation coefficient (r)0.490
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.240

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -6.563916 X +14.116
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.098
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010