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Question: How much of your contact with all of your family members and close friends is through text messages, mobile phones, or other communication devices that use the internet?
Choices: "All or almost all of it" "Most of it" "About half of it" "Some of it" "None or almost none of it" "I do not use any of these devices"
Data: % of "All or almost all of it" "Most of it"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Taiwan66.9%
2 Japan66.8%
3 Suriname64.3%
4 Mexico59.7%
5 India58.1%
6 France54.7%
7 United States54.1%
8 China53.6%
9 Finland53.1%
10 Israel50.7%
11 Philippines45.8%
12 Switzerland45.1%
13 Australia44.2%
14 Germany43.9%
15 New Zealand 43.3%
16 Spain42.6%
16 United Kingdom42.6%
18 Sweden39.4%
19 Slovakia39.1%
20 Croatia38.0%
21 South Africa36.3%
22 Czech Republic35.6%
23 Thailand34.9%
24 Russian Federation33.6%
25 Austria32.1%
26 Slovenia31.7%
27 Denmark30.0%
28 Iceland29.9%
29 Lithuania24.4%
30 Hungary23.3%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 208 countries.
Source
ISSP 2017

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -1.078001 X +7.014
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.167
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -17693.581447 X +43609.367
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.087
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -1.491564 X +78.378
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.029
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 0.734778 X +1.410
Correlation coefficient (r)0.199
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -2.848461 X +12.621
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.060
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004