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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 "No time" "Less than 1 hour"
Period:
Area:
37 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mongolia70.0%
2 Taiwan68.3%
3 Tunisia64.8%
4 Hong Kong, China63.3%
5 Iran62.9%
6 El Salvador60.5%
7 Singapore60.1%
8 Kuwait59.2%
9 Algeria57.8%
9 Georgia57.8%
11 Qatar57.6%
12 United Arab Emirates57.5%
13 Morocco56.9%
14 Armenia56.1%
15 Yemen55.6%
16 Colombia54.8%
17 New Zealand48.0%
18 Australia46.9%
19 Italy43.4%
20 United States40.6%
21 United Kingdom38.0%England only
22 Slovenia37.8%
23 Kazakhstan37.6%
24 Japan32.0%
25 Russian Federation 29.2%
26 Ukraine27.1%
27 Hungary26.5%
28 Norway24.7%
29 Czech Republic24.6%
30 Lithuania23.1%
31 Netherlands22.1%
32 Austria21.5%
33 Germany20.4%
34 Latvia17.6%
35 Sweden16.6%
36 Slovakia16.5%
37 Denmark14.5%

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 = -2.835692 X +7.391
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.563
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.317

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = -44478.375559 X +51298.070
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.315
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.099

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = -4.927750 X +79.944
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.190
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = 1.236705 X +1.274
Correlation coefficient (r)0.376
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.141

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data35
Regression equation
Y = -22.175526 X +20.763
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.604
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.365