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Question: To what extent do the following conditions prevent you from doing the free time activities you would like to do? - Lack of money
Choices: "Very much" "To a large extent" "To some extent" "Not at all"
Data: % of "Very much" "To a large extent" "To some extent"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines94.1%
2 Republic of Korea92.1%
3 Russian Federation82.6%
4 Japan78.5%
5 Dominican Republic77.6%
6 Poland77.4%
7 Chile76.3%
8 Uruguay75.6%
9 Mexico71.7%
10 Hungary68.9%
11 United States67.9%
12 Latvia67.2%
13 Bulgaria67.1%
14 Slovakia66.1%
15 Australia65.8%
16 Taiwan65.6%
17 South Africa65.1%
18 New Zealand63.8%
19 Slovenia62.7%
20 Argentina62.2%
21 France61.8%
22 Czech Republic61.3%
23 Israel61.1%
24 United Kingdom60.2%
25 Croatia59.0%
26 Cyprus55.3%
27 Finland 54.0%
28 Germany53.0%
29 Belgium45.8%
30 Austria43.7%
30 Ireland43.7%
32 Sweden38.8%
33 Norway37.1%
34 Switzerland27.9%

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 = -3.042343 X +8.455
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.680
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.462

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -125401.927902 X +116484.249
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.722
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.521

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -12.972005 X +86.973
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.437
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.191

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.391287 X +1.440
Correlation coefficient (r)0.148
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 3.540398 X +11.187
Correlation coefficient (r)0.086
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007