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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%
5 Australia47.1%
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.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2001

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.164248 X +6.722
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.070
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 14048.829675 X +43300.159
Correlation coefficient (r)0.127
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -3.999739 X +83.595
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.217
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.047

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.223526 X +1.647
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.150
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -4.540641 X +11.877
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.191
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036