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Question: People look for various things in a close friend and can differ on how important or not some things are for them. Please tick a box to say how important or not it is for close friends of yours to be each of the following: "Someone who really understands me"
Choices: "Extremely important" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not too important" "Not at all important"
Data: % of "Extremely important" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
22 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Hungary85.5%
2 Israel83.0%
3 Chile82.8%
4 Slovenia82.3%
5 Italy81.5%
6 Spain80.7%
7 Austria 80.1%
8 Switzerland77.6%
9 Poland77.2%
10 United States75.2%
11 Germany74.2%
12 Japan72.5%
13 France71.1%
14 Finland70.8%
15 Czech Republic70.5%
16 Latvia69.4%
17 Canada64.1%
18 Norway63.1%
19 Denmark62.0%
20 United Kingdom61.4%
21 Australia57.3%
22 New Zealand57.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 16 countries.

Source
ISSP 2001

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -2.284939 X +8.440
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.435
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.189

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -90421.620048 X +114280.901
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.358
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.128

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -6.853788 X +85.883
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.234
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.055

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 0.296464 X +1.316
Correlation coefficient (r)0.076
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -4.910010 X +13.480
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.141
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020