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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? - Need to take care of someone (elderly, children, ...)
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 Philippines68.0%
2 Republic of Korea63.3%
3 Dominican Republic59.1%
4 Taiwan51.1%
5 Cyprus45.1%
6 Norway44.0%
7 Russian Federation43.3%
8 Austria42.8%
9 Chile42.7%
10 Mexico39.3%
11 Slovakia39.2%
12 United States38.6%
13 Finland 38.3%
14 Latvia38.2%
15 Belgium38.1%
16 Croatia37.9%
17 France36.5%
18 Germany36.4%
19 Australia35.6%
20 Slovenia35.3%
21 New Zealand35.0%
22 Argentina34.8%
23 Bulgaria33.2%
23 Israel33.2%
25 United Kingdom32.3%
26 Czech Republic31.0%
27 Sweden30.9%
28 Uruguay30.5%
29 Poland30.3%
30 South Africa30.1%
31 Ireland28.4%
32 Japan27.5%
33 Switzerland27.4%
34 Hungary17.5%

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 204 countries.
Source
ISSP 2007

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -1.505692 X +7.104
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.233
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.054
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -59174.925304 X +59686.033
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.236
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.056
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -5.450101 X +80.830
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.124
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.252212 X +1.592
Correlation coefficient (r)0.064
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -7.864833 X +16.389
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.129
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017