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Question: How much enjoyment do you get from reading books?
Choices: "No enjoyment" "Not much enjoyment" "Some enjoyment" "A fair amount of enjoyment" "A great amount of enjoyment" "I never do that"
Data: % of "A fair amount of enjoyment" "A great amount of enjoyment"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mexico73.1%
2 Australia70.4%
3 Switzerland70.2%
4 New Zealand66.9%
5 Sweden63.6%
6 France62.0%
7 United Kingdom61.1%
8 Hungary58.1%
9 Norway54.8%
10 Germany54.1%
11 Republic of Korea53.4%
12 Czech Republic53.1%
13 Finland51.9%
14 Ireland51.5%
15 Belgium50.4%
16 Austria50.2%
17 Poland43.6%
18 Slovenia41.4%
19 United States41.0%
20 Slovakia37.6%
21 Chile34.7%
22 Latvia30.8%
23 Japan 30.3%
24 Israel25.3%

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 = 1.228429 X +6.165
Correlation coefficient (r)0.302
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.091
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 50443.935551 X +20442.409
Correlation coefficient (r)0.274
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.075
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 2.647898 X +79.098
Correlation coefficient (r)0.124
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.424378 X +1.821
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.163
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -3.787629 X +15.607
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.101
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010