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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:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France86.7%
2 Canada76.6%
3 Sweden74.8%
4 United States73.2%
5 United Kingdom70.6%
6 Norway68.6%
7 Germany67.9%
8 Italy66.5%
9 Netherlands65.3%
10 Switzerland64.8%
11 New Zealand62.9%
11 Russian Federation62.9%
13 Cyprus62.7%
14 Hungary59.5%
15 Poland58.9%
16 Portugal58.0%
17 Israel57.1%
18 Czech Republic55.8%
19 Japan55.7%
20 Bulgaria48.3%
21 Slovenia47.9%
22 Denmark47.8%
23 Spain45.9%
24 Bangladesh23.2%
25 Philippines 13.9%

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 = 2.284566 X +5.268
Correlation coefficient (r)0.503
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.253
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 89795.862918 X -12401.878
Correlation coefficient (r)0.578
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.334
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 13.623992 X +71.595
Correlation coefficient (r)0.547
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.299
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.925647 X +2.171
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.391
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.153
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 14.315590 X +3.035
Correlation coefficient (r)0.433
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.187