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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 intelligent and makes me think"
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 Hungary73.4%
2 Italy73.1%
3 Chile71.7%
4 Israel66.3%
5 United States59.8%
6 Spain58.8%
7 Switzerland 55.9%
8 France50.0%
9 Canada47.9%
10 Australia47.1%
11 Austria46.5%
12 Poland44.9%
13 Latvia42.8%
14 Germany42.7%
15 Slovenia41.6%
16 Finland38.6%
17 Norway37.8%
18 Czech Republic37.1%
19 New Zealand36.7%
20 Denmark36.2%
21 Japan34.9%
22 United Kingdom31.0%

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 = -1.277138 X +7.403
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.364
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.132

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -36278.888849 X +64653.750
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.198
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.039

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -3.724758 X +82.429
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.153
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 0.389815 X +1.417
Correlation coefficient (r)0.145
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -7.044529 X +13.352
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.303
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.092