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Question: On average, about how many people do you have contact with in a typical week day, including people you live with. We are interested in contact on a one-to-one basis, including everyone with whom you chat, talk, or discuss matters. This can be face-to-face, by telephone, by mail, or on the internet. Please include only people you know.
Choices: "0-4 persons" "5-9" "10-19" "20-49" "50 or more"
Data: % of "20-49" "50 or more"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia39.0%
2 Canada38.3%
3 Netherlands37.6%
4 Ireland36.7%
5 United Kingdom36.2%
6 New Zealand35.9%
7 United States35.3%
8 Portugal33.2%
9 Sweden 33.0%
10 France30.7%
11 Spain30.0%
12 Chile27.3%
12 Germany27.3%
14 Switzerland25.4%
15 Denmark25.3%
16 Czech Republic23.6%
17 Republic of Korea23.1%
18 Norway22.3%
19 Israel21.9%
20 Japan21.2%
21 Finland20.0%
22 Latvia18.9%
23 Slovenia17.4%
24 Poland15.5%
25 Hungary12.0%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 13 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.514081 X +6.364
Correlation coefficient (r)0.239
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.057

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 127935.056464 X +13640.929
Correlation coefficient (r)0.390
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.152

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 15.756986 X +76.501
Correlation coefficient (r)0.403
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.162

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.069137 X +1.575
Correlation coefficient (r)0.015
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -11.392967 X +13.620
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.254
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.065