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Question: Which of the following statements best describes how your working hours are decided?
Choices: "Starting and finishing times are decided by my employer and I cannot change them on my own" "I can decide the time I start and finish work, within certain limits" "I am entirely free to decide when I start and finish work"
Data: % of "I can decide the time I start and finish work, within certain limits" "I am entirely free to decide when I start and finish work"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines77.7%
2 Switzerland67.8%
3 Syrian Arab Republic66.1%
4 Denmark59.4%
5 Canada58.2%
6 New Zealand56.7%
7 Uruguay 53.2%
8 Italy52.3%
9 France51.4%
10 Germany51.0%
10 Norway51.0%
12 Netherlands50.7%
13 United States48.5%
14 Israel45.0%
15 Portugal44.0%
16 Czech Republic43.6%
17 Poland40.6%
18 Japan40.4%
19 Cyprus39.8%
20 Spain39.0%
21 Slovenia38.4%
22 Hungary37.4%
23 Bangladesh32.0%
24 Bulgaria26.8%
25 Russian Federation23.6%

Note
Those who do not work/ 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 data24
Regression equation
Y = 3.353009 X +4.988
Correlation coefficient (r)0.583
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.340

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 93013.913098 X -5218.625
Correlation coefficient (r)0.458
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.210

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 5.869861 X +76.371
Correlation coefficient (r)0.184
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.228688 X +1.096
Correlation coefficient (r)0.356
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -15.003070 X +18.677
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.326
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.106