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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - It is all right to develop friendships with people just because they can be of use to you.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
16 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 India71.8%
2 Philippines61.5%
3 Hungary54.0%
4 Slovakia41.7%
5 Mexico32.3%
6 Lithuania30.4%
7 China26.6%
8 Japan 24.1%
9 Thailand22.9%
10 Czech Republic18.6%
11 Switzerland16.5%
12 Iceland13.6%
13 United Kingdom11.9%
14 France11.1%
15 Australia9.6%
16 Germany7.7%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 222 countries.

Source
ISSP 2017

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = -3.085670 X +7.278
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.772
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.596

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = -93447.784366 X +59793.830
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.681
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.464

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = -24.209318 X +84.568
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.858
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.736

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = 0.905930 X +1.418
Correlation coefficient (r)0.476
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.227

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = -0.263723 X +9.784
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.013
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000