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Question: Do you feel that your family, relatives and/or friends make too many demands on you?
Choices: "No, never" "Yes, but seldom" "Yes, sometimes" "Yes, often" "Yes, very often"
Data: % of "Yes, sometimes" "Yes, often" "Yes, very often"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Hungary44.8%
2 Cyprus44.7%
3 Italy44.4%
4 Australia44.2%
5 Japan 42.3%
6 Finland40.6%
7 Brazil40.4%
8 South Africa39.7%
9 Philippines36.3%
10 Slovenia34.9%
11 Russian Federation33.5%
12 Israel32.3%
13 United Kingdom32.0%
14 Czech Republic31.8%
15 Canada31.2%
15 Latvia31.2%
17 United States30.8%
18 Norway29.5%
19 New Zealand29.4%
20 France25.4%
21 Germany25.3%
22 Denmark23.0%
23 Poland21.1%
24 Chile19.9%
25 Switzerland19.0%
26 Austria15.0%
27 Spain14.0%

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 211 countries.

Source
ISSP 2001

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -1.751536 X +7.176
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.292
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.085

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -72220.419572 X +63631.012
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.258
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.067

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -13.157008 X +83.004
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.221
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.049

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.577128 X +1.481
Correlation coefficient (r)0.127
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 6.372795 X +8.172
Correlation coefficient (r)0.119
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014