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Question: On average, about how many people do you have contact with in a typical week day, including people you live with. We are interested in contact on a one-to-one basis, including everyone with whom you chat, talk, or discuss matters. This can be face-to-face, by telephone, by mail, or on the internet. Please include only people you know.
Choices: "0-4 persons" "5-9" "10-19" "20-49" "50 or more"
Data: % of "20-49" "50 or more"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Dominican Republic50.9%
2 Venezuela49.8%
3 Australia39.0%
4 Canada38.3%
5 Netherlands37.6%
6 Ireland36.7%
7 United Kingdom36.2%
8 New Zealand35.9%
9 United States35.3%
10 Portugal33.2%
11 Sweden33.0%
12 Uruguay31.0%
13 South Africa30.8%
14 France30.7%
15 Spain30.0%
16 Chile27.3%
16 Germany27.3%
18 Switzerland25.4%
19 Denmark25.3%
20 Taiwan25.2%
21 Czech Republic23.6%
22 Republic of Korea23.1%
23 Philippines22.4%
24 Norway22.3%
25 Russian Federation22.0%
26 Israel21.9%
27 Japan 21.2%
28 Finland20.0%
29 Latvia18.9%
30 Slovenia17.4%
31 Croatia16.6%
32 Poland15.5%
33 Hungary12.0%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -0.246402 X +6.653
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.038
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 28567.716904 X +32237.252
Correlation coefficient (r)0.096
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -1.148799 X +78.977
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.020
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 0.900823 X +1.432
Correlation coefficient (r)0.196
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -16.573047 X +15.556
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.301
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.091