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Question: If you could change the way you spend your time, how would you change the time in leisure activities?
Choices: "Much more time" "A bit more time" "Same time as now" "A bit less time" "Much less time"
Data: % of "Much more time" "A bit more time"
Period:
Area:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France80.7%
2 New Zealand79.1%
3 Canada75.8%
4 Sweden74.9%
5 United Kingdom71.7%
6 Australia71.4%
7 Norway71.3%
8 Finland 69.3%
9 Belgium66.3%
10 United States65.2%
11 Hungary64.2%
12 Czech Republic62.4%
13 Cyprus61.2%
14 Ireland60.7%
15 Denmark59.2%
16 Republic of Korea59.0%
17 Russian Federation57.1%
18 Israel54.7%
19 Latvia54.5%
19 Switzerland54.5%
21 Germany53.1%
22 Spain53.0%
23 Slovenia49.3%
24 Japan49.1%
25 Taiwan48.9%
26 Portugal47.4%
27 Mexico46.5%
28 Bulgaria41.3%
29 South Africa40.7%
30 Dominican Republic34.3%
31 Philippines14.2%

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 207 countries.
Source
ISSP 2005

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 3.022607 X +4.859
Correlation coefficient (r)0.612
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.375
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 103353.920617 X -18269.249
Correlation coefficient (r)0.574
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.329
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 18.943560 X +68.286
Correlation coefficient (r)0.581
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.338
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -1.240724 X +2.377
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.437
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.191
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 9.253446 X +7.683
Correlation coefficient (r)0.211
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045