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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 helps me get things done"
Choices: "Extremely important" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not too important" "Not at all important"
Data: % of "Extremely important" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan61.2%
2 Italy51.1%
3 United States45.4%
4 Germany45.0%
5 Canada33.3%
6 France 33.0%
8 United Kingdom24.5%

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.

Source
ISSP 2001

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.861587 X +7.364
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.799
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.638

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -29967.498930 X +63299.087
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.242
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.059

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 3.139020 X +80.198
Correlation coefficient (r)0.186
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.950339 X +1.873
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.560
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.314

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 5.998090 X +6.945
Correlation coefficient (r)0.222
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.049