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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:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia72.7%
2 France72.3%
3 New Zealand69.1%
4 Uruguay 67.4%
5 Norway66.4%
6 Sweden64.7%
7 United Kingdom64.6%
8 United States64.5%
9 Finland64.3%
10 Belgium62.0%
11 Chile61.8%
12 Latvia61.7%
13 Mexico61.2%
14 Russian Federation60.6%
15 Hungary60.5%
16 Republic of Korea59.6%
17 Cyprus59.1%
17 Slovenia59.1%
19 Japan57.7%
20 Croatia56.5%
21 Ireland56.4%
22 Czech Republic55.0%
23 Austria53.1%
24 Germany52.2%
25 Israel50.6%
26 Slovakia49.6%
27 Bulgaria48.2%
28 Switzerland48.0%
29 Taiwan45.2%
30 Argentina44.7%
31 Poland43.4%
32 South Africa41.7%
33 Dominican Republic37.2%
34 Philippines29.1%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 204 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 2.878409 X +4.905
Correlation coefficient (r)0.439
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.193

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 100010.600738 X -19333.369
Correlation coefficient (r)0.393
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.154

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 23.950432 X +65.168
Correlation coefficient (r)0.540
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.292

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -1.781577 X +2.699
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.450
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.203

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 19.391195 X +2.407
Correlation coefficient (r)0.314
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.099