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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 helps me get things done"
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 Chile76.8%
2 Japan 61.2%
3 Hungary56.9%
4 Spain52.1%
5 Italy51.1%
6 Israel45.8%
7 Slovenia45.5%
8 United States45.4%
9 Austria45.2%
10 Germany45.0%
11 Poland44.8%
12 Latvia43.2%
13 Czech Republic40.3%
14 Switzerland37.1%
15 Canada33.3%
16 France33.0%
17 Finland26.8%
18 Australia25.2%
19 United Kingdom24.5%
20 New Zealand23.4%
21 Norway19.0%
22 Denmark12.2%

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 = -2.256696 X +7.690
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.736
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.542

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -97707.411717 X +86359.246
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.613
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.376

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -5.892451 X +82.987
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.278
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.077

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -0.277894 X +1.720
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.118
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -0.812297 X +10.238
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.040
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002