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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia39.0%
2 Canada38.3%
3 United Kingdom36.2%
4 United States35.3%
5 Sweden33.0%
6 France30.7%
7 Germany27.3%
8 Republic of Korea23.1%
9 Japan 21.2%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 6.151396 X +4.857
Correlation coefficient (r)0.804
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.646

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 127331.518721 X +11123.462
Correlation coefficient (r)0.730
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.533

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -14.712240 X +86.489
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.458
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.210

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 2.315564 X +0.756
Correlation coefficient (r)0.533
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.284

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -52.072426 X +31.215
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.590
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.348