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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:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines92.5%
2 South Africa85.7%
3 Cyprus85.6%
4 Hungary85.5%
5 Israel83.0%
6 Chile82.8%
7 Slovenia82.3%
8 Italy81.5%
9 Spain80.7%
10 Austria80.1%
11 Switzerland77.6%
12 Poland77.2%
13 Russian Federation76.3%
14 United States75.2%
15 Germany74.2%
16 Japan 72.5%
17 France71.1%
18 Finland70.8%
19 Czech Republic70.5%
20 Latvia69.4%
21 Canada64.1%
22 Norway63.1%
23 Denmark62.0%
24 United Kingdom61.4%
25 Australia57.3%
26 New Zealand57.2%
27 Brazil54.4%

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.

No data for 211 countries.

Source
ISSP 2001

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -2.543881 X +8.499
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.466
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.217

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -98893.274576 X +113750.255
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.389
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.151

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -16.325973 X +90.887
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.302
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.091

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 1.122920 X +0.835
Correlation coefficient (r)0.272
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.074

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -1.446541 X +11.262
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.030
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001