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Question: How much of your contact with all of your family members and close friends is through text messages, mobile phones, or other communication devices that use the internet?
Choices: "All or almost all of it" "Most of it" "About half of it" "Some of it" "None or almost none of it" "I do not use any of these devices"
Data: % of "All or almost all of it" "Most of it"
Period:
Area:
21 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan66.8%
2 Mexico59.7%
3 France54.7%
4 United States54.1%
5 Finland53.1%
6 Israel50.7%
7 Switzerland45.1%
8 Australia44.2%
9 Germany43.9%
10 New Zealand43.3%
11 Spain42.6%
11 United Kingdom42.6%
13 Sweden39.4%
14 Slovakia39.1%
15 Czech Republic35.6%
16 Austria32.1%
17 Slovenia31.7%
18 Denmark30.0%
19 Iceland29.9%
20 Lithuania24.4%
21 Hungary 23.3%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 17 countries.

Source
ISSP 2017

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -0.450309 X +7.057
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.111
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 6553.908551 X +46164.224
Correlation coefficient (r)0.034
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 5.719805 X +78.281
Correlation coefficient (r)0.233
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.054

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 0.604137 X +1.326
Correlation coefficient (r)0.203
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.041

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -8.698782 X +14.067
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.283
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.080