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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 really understands me"
Choices: "Extremely important" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not too important" "Not at all important"
Data: % of "Extremely important" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
22 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Hungary85.5%
2 Israel83.0%
3 Chile82.8%
4 Slovenia82.3%
5 Italy81.5%
6 Spain80.7%
7 Austria80.1%
8 Switzerland77.6%
9 Poland77.2%
10 United States75.2%
11 Germany74.2%
12 Japan 72.5%
13 France71.1%
14 Finland70.8%
15 Czech Republic70.5%
16 Latvia69.4%
17 Canada64.1%
18 Norway63.1%
19 Denmark62.0%
20 United Kingdom61.4%
21 Australia57.3%
22 New Zealand57.2%

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 16 countries.

Source
ISSP 2001

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -2.618068 X +8.766
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.431
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.186

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -101928.418277 X +120443.639
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.414
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -7.558530 X +86.314
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.258
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.067

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 0.417121 X +1.274
Correlation coefficient (r)0.111
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 1.671743 X +11.344
Correlation coefficient (r)0.038
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001