Entry:

Utasi, Agnes, "Friendships," Social Report, Rudolf Andorka, Tamas Kolosi, and Gyorgy Vukovich, eds., Budapest: TARKI, 1992.


Abstract:

A seven-nation survey shows that the source of friends changes as individuals grow older, shifting from schoolmates to coworkers as individuals move into middle-age. One-third of Hungarians report having no friends, while among those Hungarians who did report friendships, more than half of them were met at the workplace. More than one-half of Americans, Australians and Italians reported friendship involving emotional content, compared to only 30.4 percent for Hungarians.

GSS Years:

1986

Other Data Sets:

ISSP 1986

GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document:

Variable Name

Variable Label

 
 
AGE

AGE OF RESPONDENT

EDUC

HIGHEST YEAR OF SCHOOL COMPLETED

RCLOSE1

R FEELS ESPECIALLY CLOSE TO PERSON #1

RCLOSE2

R FEELS ESPECIALLY CLOSE TO PERSON #2

RCLOSE3

R FEELS ESPECIALLY CLOSE TO PERSON #3

RCLOSE4

R FEELS ESPECIALLY CLOSE TO PERSON #4

RCLOSE5

R FEELS ESPECIALLY CLOSE TO PERSON #5

EQCLOSE

R FEELS EQUALLY CLOSE TO ALL PERSONS

CLOSE12

HOW CLOSE ARE PERSONS NUMBER 1 AND 2?

CLOSE13

HOW CLOSE ARE PERSONS NUMBER 1 AND 3?

CLOSE14

HOW CLOSE ARE PERSONS NUMBER 1 AND 4?

CLOSE15

HOW CLOSE ARE PERSONS NUMBER 1 AND 5?

CLOSE23

HOW CLOSE ARE PERSONS NUMBER 2 AND 3?

CLOSE24

HOW CLOSE ARE PERSONS NUMBER 2 AND 4?

CLOSE25

HOW CLOSE ARE PERSONS NUMBER 2 AND 5?

CLOSE34

HOW CLOSE ARE PERSONS NUMBER 3 AND 4?

CLOSE35

HOW CLOSE ARE PERSONS NUMBER 3 AND 5?

CLOSE45

HOW CLOSE ARE PERSONS NUMBER 4 AND 5?

SEX1

SEX OF PERSON NUMBER 1

SEX2

SEX OF PERSON NUMBER 2

SEX3

SEX OF PERSON NUMBER 3

SEX4

SEX OF PERSON NUMBER 4

SEX5

SEX OF PERSON NUMBER 5

RACE1

RACE OF PERSON NUMBER 1

RACE2

RACE OF PERSON NUMBER 2

RACE3

RACE OF PERSON NUMBER 3

RACE4

RACE OF PERSON NUMBER 4

RACE5

RACE OF PERSON NUMBER 5

SPOUSE1

PERSON #1 IS RS SPOUSE

SPOUSE2

PERSON #2 IS RS SPOUSE

SPOUSE3

PERSON #3 IS RS SPOUSE

SPOUSE4

PERSON #4 IS RS SPOUSE

SPOUSE5

PERSON #5 IS RS SPOUSE

PARENT1

PERSON #1 IS RS PARENT

PARENT2

PERSON #2 IS RS PARENT

PARENT3

PERSON #3 IS RS PARENT

PARENT4

PERSON #4 IS RS PARENT

PARENT5

PERSON #5 IS RS PARENT

SIBLING1

PERSON #1 IS RS SIBLING

SIBLING2

PERSON #2 IS RS SIBLING

SIBLING3

PERSON #3 IS RS SIBLING

SIBLING4

PERSON #4 IS RS SIBLING

SIBLING5

PERSON #5 IS RS SIBLING

CHILD1

PERSON #1 IS RS CHILD

CHILD2

PERSON #2 IS RS CHILD

CHILD3

PERSON #3 IS RS CHILD

CHILD4

PERSON #4 IS RS CHILD

CHILD5

PERSON #5 IS RS CHILD

OTHFAM1

PERSON #1 IS RS FAMILY MEMBER

OTHFAM2

PERSON #2 IS RS FAMILY MEMBER

OTHFAM3

PERSON #3 IS RS FAMILY MEMBER

OTHFAM4

PERSON #4 IS RS FAMILY MEMBER

OTHFAM5

PERSON #5 IS RS FAMILY MEMBER

COWORK1

PERSON #1 IS RS COWORKER

COWORK2

PERSON #2 IS RS COWORKER

COWORK3

PERSON #3 IS RS COWORKER

COWORK4

PERSON #4 IS RS COWORKER

COWORK5

PERSON #5 IS RS COWORKER

MEMGRP1

PERSON #1 IS MEMBER OF RS GROUP

MEMGRP2

PERSON #2 IS MEMBER OF RS GROUP

MEMGRP3

PERSON #3 IS MEMBER OF RS GROUP

MEMGRP4

PERSON #4 IS MEMBER OF RS GROUP

MEMGRP5

PERSON #5 IS MEMBER OF RS GROUP

NEIGHBR1

PERSON #1 IS RS NEIGHBOR

NEIGHBR2

PERSON #2 IS RS NEIGHBOR

NEIGHBR3

PERSON #3 IS RS NEIGHBOR

NEIGHBR5

PERSON #5 IS RS NEIGHBOR

FUTRUP

Variable Label could not be found