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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:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 South Africa73.5%
2 Hungary73.4%
3 Italy73.1%
4 Philippines73.0%
5 Chile71.7%
6 Israel66.3%
7 Cyprus63.3%
8 United States59.8%
9 Spain58.8%
10 Switzerland55.9%
11 France50.0%
12 Canada47.9%
13 Australia47.1%
14 Austria46.5%
15 Poland44.9%
16 Russian Federation44.7%
17 Brazil 44.4%
18 Latvia42.8%
19 Germany42.7%
20 Slovenia41.6%
21 Finland38.6%
22 Norway37.8%
23 Czech Republic37.1%
24 New Zealand36.7%
25 Denmark36.2%
26 Japan34.9%
27 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 211 countries.

Source
ISSP 2001

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -2.061325 X +7.717
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.430
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.185

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -58616.853515 X +69843.138
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.337
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.114

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -12.264095 X +85.584
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.367
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.135

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 1.036534 X +1.105
Correlation coefficient (r)0.376
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.141

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -8.134030 X +16.642
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.201
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040