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Question: How difficult would it be for you to take an hour or two off during working hours, to take care of personal or family matters?
Choices: "Not difficult at all" "Not too difficult" "Somewhat difficult" "Very difficult"
Data: % of "Not difficult at all" "Not too difficult"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 New Zealand80.2%
2 Sweden78.6%
3 Ireland77.6%
4 Denmark75.9%
5 Switzerland75.6%
6 United Kingdom73.2%
7 Australia72.7%
8 Finland72.6%
9 United States71.1%
10 Norway69.2%
11 Portugal68.7%
12 Slovenia65.6%
13 France65.2%
14 Canada63.4%
15 Republic of Korea61.8%
16 Japan 61.7%
16 Mexico61.7%
18 Hungary61.1%
19 Israel57.9%
20 Germany56.6%
21 Spain53.5%
22 Czech Republic52.3%
23 Latvia51.3%
24 Belgium49.6%

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 14 countries.

Source
ISSP 2005

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 3.078582 X +4.826
Correlation coefficient (r)0.507
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.257

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 150165.817570 X -49648.088
Correlation coefficient (r)0.587
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.345

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 10.374775 X +74.120
Correlation coefficient (r)0.358
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.128

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.234967 X +1.745
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.060
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -8.986694 X +19.351
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.161
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026