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Question: How often do you use your free time to relax and recover?
Choices: "Very often" "Often" "Sometimes" "Seldom" "Never"
Data: % of "Very often" "Often"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland75.9%
2 Switzerland68.0%
3 Poland66.6%
4 Germany65.7%
5 Austria64.2%
5 Norway64.2%
7 Hungary64.0%
8 Australia63.6%
9 United Kingdom63.4%
10 New Zealand63.3%
11 Latvia61.8%
12 Sweden59.4%
13 Japan 57.5%
14 Ireland57.2%
14 United States57.2%
16 Czech Republic56.8%
17 France55.6%
18 Slovakia53.4%
19 Republic of Korea53.1%
20 Belgium52.1%
21 Mexico50.7%
22 Chile46.4%
23 Israel42.7%
24 Slovenia33.2%

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 = 2.124358 X +5.559
Correlation coefficient (r)0.353
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.125
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 87122.696723 X -4391.952
Correlation coefficient (r)0.320
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.102
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 1.664757 X +79.486
Correlation coefficient (r)0.053
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -1.596634 X +2.532
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.415
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.172
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.404238 X +13.902
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.007
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000