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Question: Which of the following statements best describes how your working hours are decided?
Choices: "Starting and finishing times are decided by my employer and I cannot change them on my own" "I can decide the time I start and finish work, within certain limits" "I am entirely free to decide when I start and finish work"
Data: % of "I can decide the time I start and finish work, within certain limits" "I am entirely free to decide when I start and finish work"
Period:
Area:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland70.9%
2 Philippines70.8%
3 Denmark69.3%
4 Finland67.9%
5 Syrian Arab Republic65.2%
6 Republic of Korea61.5%
7 Dominican Republic57.1%
8 New Zealand56.9%
9 Uruguay55.6%
10 Norway55.4%
11 Israel54.8%
12 Australia54.6%
13 Canada54.4%
14 Tajikistan53.5%
15 Belgium52.0%
16 France 51.6%
16 United States51.6%
18 Germany49.9%
19 Mexico49.3%
20 Ireland48.7%
21 Spain45.4%
22 Slovenia42.0%
23 Czech Republic40.4%
24 Japan39.3%
25 Latvia36.5%
26 Hungary35.3%
27 Portugal33.8%
28 Cyprus32.0%
29 South Africa28.0%
30 Bulgaria25.0%
31 Russian Federation23.8%

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 data30
Regression equation
Y = 3.352258 X +4.886
Correlation coefficient (r)0.603
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.364

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 91369.743725 X -5977.308
Correlation coefficient (r)0.442
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.195

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 12.158060 X +72.648
Correlation coefficient (r)0.331
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.110

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 0.806760 X +1.365
Correlation coefficient (r)0.193
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.037

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -14.059612 X +19.744
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.274
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.075