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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:
22 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Hungary94.3%
2 Israel90.7%
3 United States89.0%
4 Austria87.2%
5 Chile85.8%
6 France84.9%
7 Denmark84.4%
8 Australia84.2%
9 New Zealand84.1%
10 Canada84.0%
11 Finland 83.2%
12 United Kingdom83.0%
13 Switzerland81.9%
14 Italy79.7%
15 Slovenia79.1%
16 Norway78.9%
17 Spain71.5%
18 Poland63.0%
19 Latvia60.7%
20 Japan56.9%
21 Czech Republic53.4%
22 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 16 countries.

Source
ISSP 2001

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 0.887310 X +6.096
Correlation coefficient (r)0.279
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.078

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 43016.667334 X +13787.477
Correlation coefficient (r)0.259
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.067

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 2.766244 X +78.478
Correlation coefficient (r)0.125
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 0.590361 X +1.153
Correlation coefficient (r)0.242
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.059

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -0.687877 X +10.440
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.033
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001