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Question: In the last 12 months, how many days of leave from your work, if any, did you take altogether (do not include maternity or sick leaves or similar types of leave)?
Choices: "None" "1-5 days" "6-10 days" "11-20 days" "21-30 days" "More than 30 days"
Data: % of "None" "1-5 days" in those answering any of those answers
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile90.4%
2 France71.7%
3 Japan 66.2%
4 United States63.2%
5 Israel63.0%
6 Republic of Korea62.6%
7 Mexico59.2%
8 Austria56.7%
9 Hungary56.6%
10 New Zealand50.1%
11 Germany48.3%
12 Ireland45.0%
13 Latvia41.7%
14 Australia39.1%
15 United Kingdom35.0%
16 Poland33.4%
17 Norway28.4%
18 Finland26.8%
19 Slovenia25.9%
20 Slovakia25.4%
21 Czech Republic24.3%
22 Belgium22.9%
23 Switzerland22.7%
24 Sweden15.9%

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 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -1.235013 X +7.347
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.437
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.191

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -33372.648543 X +61225.630
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.261
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.068

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.069790 X +80.423
Correlation coefficient (r)0.005
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.306697 X +1.466
Correlation coefficient (r)0.170
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -2.841823 X +14.939
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.109
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012