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Question: If you could change the way you spend your time, how would you change the time with your friends?
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:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Norway72.0%
2 Canada67.1%
3 United States65.4%
4 Sweden65.3%
5 France65.2%
6 Netherlands59.3%
7 Cyprus59.1%
7 United Kingdom59.1%
9 Switzerland59.0%
10 Germany58.1%
11 Italy54.5%
12 New Zealand54.2%
13 Israel54.0%
14 Portugal53.6%
15 Denmark53.4%
16 Japan48.5%
17 Spain42.3%
18 Slovenia41.3%
19 Bulgaria40.3%
20 Poland38.6%
21 Czech Republic37.4%
21 Hungary37.4%
23 Russian Federation37.0%
24 Bangladesh13.9%
25 Philippines 10.4%

Note
Can't choose Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 1997

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 3.252288 X +4.995
Correlation coefficient (r)0.703
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.494

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 127699.922474 X -23070.433
Correlation coefficient (r)0.807
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.651

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 19.246333 X +70.041
Correlation coefficient (r)0.759
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.576

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.810597 X +2.029
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.336
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.113

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 7.364592 X +7.812
Correlation coefficient (r)0.219
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048