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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 is enjoyable company"
Choices: "Extremely important" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not too important" "Not at all important"
Data: % of "Extremely important" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States89.0%
2 France 84.9%
3 Australia84.2%
4 Canada84.0%
5 United Kingdom83.0%
6 Italy79.7%
7 Japan56.9%
8 Germany35.1%

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 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2001

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.560104 X +6.225
Correlation coefficient (r)0.331
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.110

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 28640.892341 X +28721.394
Correlation coefficient (r)0.363
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.132

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -2.708516 X +83.683
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.205
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.266793 X +1.340
Correlation coefficient (r)0.250
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 2.033091 X +8.167
Correlation coefficient (r)0.120
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014