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Question: Who would you turn to first to give you advice about family problems?
Choices: "Close family member" "More distant family member" "Close friend" "neighbor" "Someone I work with" "Someone else" "No one"
Data: % of "Close friend"
Period:
Area:
5 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States45.3%
2 Germany43.8%
3 France 43.0%
4 United Kingdom42.1%
5 Japan42.0%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2017

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 10.179817 X +2.187
Correlation coefficient (r)0.545
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.297

Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 11.026838 X +1.804
Correlation coefficient (r)0.516
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.266

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 1290417.606012 X -503546.173
Correlation coefficient (r)0.899
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.808

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -134.728932 X +139.657
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.847
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.717

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 6.049383 X -1.130
Correlation coefficient (r)0.434
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.188

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 37.190016 X -4.543
Correlation coefficient (r)0.168
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028