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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 helps me get things done"
Choices: "Extremely important" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not too important" "Not at all important"
Data: % of "Extremely important" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines85.8%
2 South Africa77.1%
3 Chile76.8%
4 Japan 61.2%
5 Hungary56.9%
6 Cyprus56.2%
7 Spain52.1%
8 Italy51.1%
9 Russian Federation46.8%
10 Brazil45.9%
11 Israel45.8%
12 Slovenia45.5%
13 United States45.4%
14 Austria45.2%
15 Germany45.0%
16 Poland44.8%
17 Latvia43.2%
18 Czech Republic40.3%
19 Switzerland37.1%
20 Canada33.3%
21 France33.0%
22 Finland26.8%
23 Australia25.2%
24 United Kingdom24.5%
25 New Zealand23.4%
26 Norway19.0%
27 Denmark12.2%

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 = -2.403386 X +7.688
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.767
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.588

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -100225.279424 X +85245.461
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.686
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.471

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -17.112208 X +86.433
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.550
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.303

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.687106 X +1.359
Correlation coefficient (r)0.290
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.539712 X +9.954
Correlation coefficient (r)0.019
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000