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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:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States89.0%
2 France 84.9%
3 Canada84.0%
4 United Kingdom83.0%
5 Italy79.7%
6 Japan56.9%
7 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.

Source
ISSP 2001

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.103208 X +6.556
Correlation coefficient (r)0.082
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.240689 X +6.418
Correlation coefficient (r)0.202
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.041

Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.392489 X +6.296
Correlation coefficient (r)0.267
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.071

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 25079.451745 X +34243.961
Correlation coefficient (r)0.292
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.085

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.969216 X +82.467
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.098
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.377845 X +1.136
Correlation coefficient (r)0.374
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.140

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.510778 X +9.686
Correlation coefficient (r)0.028
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001