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Question: Who would you turn to first to help you with a household or a garden job that you cannot do yourself?
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:
21 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States23.7%
2 Denmark18.4%
3 Germany17.4%
4 Switzerland 16.7%
5 United Kingdom16.1%
6 Mexico15.9%
7 Spain15.5%
8 New Zealand15.3%
9 Austria15.2%
10 France14.4%
11 Australia14.1%
12 Czech Republic13.5%
13 Sweden12.1%
14 Israel11.9%
14 Slovakia11.9%
16 Finland11.5%
17 Hungary10.9%
18 Lithuania9.5%
19 Iceland9.2%
20 Slovenia6.2%
21 Japan2.9%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 17 countries.

Source
ISSP 2017

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 1.903586 X +6.611
Correlation coefficient (r)0.181
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 196449.881082 X +19798.666
Correlation coefficient (r)0.407
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.166

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -13.469866 X +81.930
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.153
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 0.397344 X +1.613
Correlation coefficient (r)0.050
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -26.266672 X +13.927
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.329
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.108