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Question: When you are involved in free time activities to what extent do they enable you to be the kind of person you really are?
Choices: "Very much" "A lot" "Somewhat" "A little" "Not at all"
Data: % of "Very much" "A lot"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland90.8%
2 Norway83.7%
3 Czech Republic78.7%
4 Slovenia78.0%
5 Latvia71.2%
6 Belgium66.9%
7 Switzerland64.5%
8 New Zealand64.0%
9 United Kingdom62.7%
10 United States62.6%
11 Australia62.4%
12 Ireland62.3%
12 Republic of Korea62.3%
14 Chile60.6%
15 Israel58.4%
16 Slovakia58.1%
17 Hungary57.3%
18 Poland57.2%
19 Sweden56.7%
20 Germany56.4%
21 Mexico54.5%
22 France52.5%
23 Austria46.2%
24 Japan 36.9%

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 = 1.940353 X +5.578
Correlation coefficient (r)0.413
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 36415.141404 X +23450.606
Correlation coefficient (r)0.171
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.698245 X +80.892
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.028
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.280367 X +1.779
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.093
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 6.677363 X +9.480
Correlation coefficient (r)0.154
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024