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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 really understands me"
Choices: "Extremely important" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not too important" "Not at all important"
Data: % of "Extremely important" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy81.5%
2 United States75.2%
3 Germany74.2%
4 Japan72.5%
5 France 71.1%
6 Canada64.1%
7 United Kingdom61.4%

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 = -0.409027 X +6.924
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.112
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.515358 X +7.677
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.437
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.191

Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -2.242173 X +8.185
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.525
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.276

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -8100.408786 X +58395.292
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.032
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 4.370633 X +78.635
Correlation coefficient (r)0.151
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.749647 X +1.948
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.255
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.065

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -4.405211 X +13.207
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.082
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007