Should close friend be someone who understands r

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Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question People look for various things in a close friend and can differ on how important or not some things are for them. please select a response to say how important or not it is for close friends of yours to be each of the following: C. Someone who really understands me

Values

[1] extremely important
[2] very important
[3] fairly important
[4] not too important
[5] not at all important
[NA(d)] don't know [NA(i)] iap [NA(j)] I don't have a job [NA(m)] dk, na, iap [NA(n)] no answer [NA(p)] not imputable [NA(r)] refused [NA(s)] skipped on web [NA(u)] uncodeable [NA(x)] not available in this release [NA(y)] not available in this year [NA(z)] see codebook

Question Years and Ballots

ballots	years
A/B/C	2002

Overview

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for frdknows.

Counts by year:

year	iap	extremely important	very important	fairly important	not too important	not at all important	don't know	no answer	Total
2002	1616	411	446	206	57	19	2	8	2765
Total	1616	411	446	206	57	19	2	8	2765