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Question: If you could change the way you spend your time, how would you change the time in a paid job?
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 Philippines 68.8%
2 Bulgaria65.0%
3 Israel48.3%
4 Bangladesh44.0%
5 Spain42.9%
6 Italy35.5%
7 Hungary33.2%
8 Canada31.2%
9 Netherlands30.1%
10 Russian Federation29.2%
11 United States28.4%
12 Portugal27.2%
13 Cyprus24.5%
14 New Zealand22.8%
15 Germany21.3%
16 United Kingdom20.4%
17 Poland19.0%
18 Switzerland17.8%
19 Norway17.5%
20 France16.4%
21 Slovenia15.6%
22 Sweden15.0%
23 Czech Republic13.6%
24 Denmark13.2%
25 Japan8.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. 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 = -2.195393 X +7.239
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.476
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.227

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -79010.731437 X +63012.565
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.502
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.252

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -14.522305 X +83.756
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.576
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.332

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.110266 X +1.309
Correlation coefficient (r)0.463
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.214

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -16.880784 X +16.273
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.503
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.253