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Question: Who would you turn to first to help you around your home if you were sick and had to stay in bed for a few days?
Choices: "Close family member" "More distant family member" "Close friend" "neighbor" "Someone I work with" "Someone else" "No one"
Data: % of "Close friend"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States14.5%
2 United Kingdom10.7%
3 Germany10.6%
5 France 9.2%
7 Japan2.0%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2017

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 5.918751 X +6.016
Correlation coefficient (r)0.930
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.865

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 338408.029545 X +20842.645
Correlation coefficient (r)0.876
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.767

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -47.331427 X +85.729
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.880
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.774

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 3.130808 X +1.256
Correlation coefficient (r)0.707
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.500

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 0.432452 X +10.269
Correlation coefficient (r)0.006
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000