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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 is intelligent and makes me think"
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 Italy73.1%
2 United States59.8%
3 France 50.0%
4 Canada47.9%
6 Germany42.7%
7 Japan34.9%
8 United Kingdom31.0%

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 = -0.118933 X +6.641
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.059
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 22406.942291 X +39869.977
Correlation coefficient (r)0.210
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.044

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -4.013190 X +83.460
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.277
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.077

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.132473 X +1.539
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.091
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -4.374484 X +11.581
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.188
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035