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Question: If you could change the way you spend your time, how would you change the time in a paid job?
Choices: "Much more time" "A bit more time" "Same time as now" "A bit less time" "Much less time"
Data: % of "A bit less time" "Much less time"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden59.5%
2 France51.1%
3 Australia50.6%
3 Finland 50.6%
5 New Zealand47.5%
6 Japan45.2%
7 Latvia44.0%
8 Ireland43.3%
9 Norway43.2%
10 United Kingdom42.5%
11 Czech Republic42.1%
12 Slovenia40.0%
13 United States37.1%
14 Hungary36.5%
15 Belgium36.1%
16 Switzerland35.4%
17 Poland34.9%
18 Cyprus34.4%
19 Russian Federation34.2%
20 Chile32.8%
21 Uruguay31.7%
22 Croatia28.9%
23 Germany28.5%
24 Argentina24.8%
25 Austria24.3%
25 Slovakia24.3%
27 Israel23.0%
28 Taiwan22.3%
29 Mexico21.2%
30 South Africa18.6%
31 Philippines15.4%
32 Republic of Korea15.1%
33 Dominican Republic13.5%
34 Bulgaria13.0%

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 = 3.277074 X +5.426
Correlation coefficient (r)0.600
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.360

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 112029.563657 X -598.285
Correlation coefficient (r)0.528
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.279

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 19.808515 X +72.033
Correlation coefficient (r)0.540
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.292

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -1.163309 X +2.083
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.355
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.126

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 6.486282 X +11.216
Correlation coefficient (r)0.127
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016