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Question: On a normal school day, how much time do you spend before or after school doing each of these things? - I play or talk with friends.
Choices: "No time" "Less than 1 hour" "1-2 hours" "More than 2 but less 4 hours" "4 or more hours"
Data: % of "More than 2 but less 4 hours" "4 or more hours"
Period:
Area:
37 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark68.4%
2 Sweden66.1%
3 Germany62.0%
4 Latvia61.5%
5 Slovakia60.8%
6 Austria57.3%
7 Netherlands54.5%
8 Lithuania53.7%
9 Norway52.6%
10 Czech Republic52.4%
11 Hungary46.8%
12 Ukraine46.7%
13 Russian Federation45.1%
14 Japan37.9%
15 United States37.4%
16 United Kingdom37.3%England only
17 Slovenia35.9%
18 Italy33.1%
19 Australia30.6%
20 New Zealand30.3%
21 Colombia25.0%
22 El Salvador22.3%
23 United Arab Emirates21.8%
24 Qatar20.8%
25 Kazakhstan 20.3%
26 Singapore19.3%
27 Kuwait19.0%
28 Georgia18.4%
29 Morocco18.3%
30 Algeria17.6%
31 Armenia17.2%
32 Yemen16.7%
33 Iran15.3%
34 Hong Kong, China14.9%
35 Taiwan14.6%
36 Tunisia14.5%
37 Mongolia11.8%

Note
Don't know/ No answer are excluded. United Kingdom: England only.

No data for 201 countries.

Source
TIMSS 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = 3.120263 X +5.108
Correlation coefficient (r)0.625
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.391

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 54520.101217 X +13567.488
Correlation coefficient (r)0.388
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.151

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = 6.617018 X +75.564
Correlation coefficient (r)0.260
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.068

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = -1.455145 X +2.302
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.452
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.204

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data35
Regression equation
Y = 19.235036 X +4.775
Correlation coefficient (r)0.536
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.287