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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 enjoyable company"
Choices: "Extremely important" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not too important" "Not at all important"
Data: % of "Extremely important" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Hungary94.3%
2 Philippines90.9%
3 Israel90.7%
4 United States89.0%
5 Austria87.2%
6 Chile85.8%
7 Cyprus85.7%
8 France84.9%
9 Denmark84.4%
10 Australia84.2%
11 New Zealand84.1%
12 Canada84.0%
13 Finland83.2%
14 United Kingdom83.0%
15 Switzerland81.9%
16 Italy79.7%
17 Slovenia79.1%
18 Norway78.9%
19 South Africa73.3%
20 Spain71.5%
21 Russian Federation69.4%
22 Poland63.0%
23 Latvia60.7%
24 Japan56.9%
25 Czech Republic53.4%
26 Brazil 53.2%
27 Germany35.1%

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 211 countries.

Source
ISSP 2001

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.974689 X +5.922
Correlation coefficient (r)0.211
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 40741.110360 X +8823.057
Correlation coefficient (r)0.242
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.059

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 3.595839 X +76.591
Correlation coefficient (r)0.111
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.571711 X +1.194
Correlation coefficient (r)0.215
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.046

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -6.782731 X +17.698
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.173
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030