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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" "Neighbour" "Someone I work with" "Someone else" "No one"
Data: % of "Close friend"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States23.7%
2 Germany17.4%
3 United Kingdom16.1%
4 France14.4%
5 Australia14.1%
6 Sweden12.1%
7 Japan 2.9%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2017

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 4.194696 X +6.286
Correlation coefficient (r)0.610
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.372

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 115377.104948 X +36970.751
Correlation coefficient (r)0.664
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.441

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -33.937629 X +86.525
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.921
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.848

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.250439 X +1.412
Correlation coefficient (r)0.529
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.280

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -5.138433 X +13.968
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.118
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014