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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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy81.5%
2 United States75.2%
3 Germany74.2%
4 Japan72.5%
5 France 71.1%
6 Canada64.1%
7 United Kingdom61.4%

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.

Source
ISSP 2001

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -2.242173 X +8.185
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.525
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.276

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -8506.029342 X +56809.878
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.038
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -2.037785 X +82.970
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.066
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.680184 X +1.960
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.219
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -4.868861 X +12.938
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.098
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010