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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:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States23.7%
2 Denmark18.4%
3 Croatia18.0%
4 Germany17.4%
5 Switzerland16.7%
6 United Kingdom16.1%
7 Mexico15.9%
8 Spain15.5%
9 New Zealand15.3%
10 Austria15.2%
11 France14.4%
12 Australia14.1%
13 Czech Republic13.5%
14 India13.0%
15 Taiwan12.8%
16 South Africa12.3%
17 Sweden12.1%
18 Israel11.9%
18 Slovakia11.9%
20 Finland 11.5%
21 Hungary10.9%
22 Russian Federation10.5%
23 Lithuania9.5%
24 Iceland9.2%
25 Suriname8.9%
26 China6.5%
27 Slovenia6.2%
28 Philippines5.3%
29 Thailand4.8%
30 Japan2.9%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 208 countries.

Source
ISSP 2017

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 6.182504 X +5.773
Correlation coefficient (r)0.326
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.106

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 249673.178795 X +4571.021
Correlation coefficient (r)0.470
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.221

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 16.378603 X +76.296
Correlation coefficient (r)0.155
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -1.125590 X +1.869
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.136
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -8.905702 X +14.831
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.069
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005