# Just over half want friends who share their values

Canonical page: https://data.verasight.io/culture/just-over-half-want-friends-who-share-their-values/

> Indexed question in Culture.

## Reading

Roughly equal shares of Americans take no side (25%) or reject the idea that it matters for their friends to hold similar attitudes and values (24%), according to a March 2025 Verasight survey.

The rest, just over half (51%), say it does matter to them, including 12% who feel strongly.

## Topline

Please indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree with the following statement: It is important to me that my friends hold similar attitudes and values to my own.

Just over half want friends who share their values.

Net findings combine adjacent response options from the same scale.

- Agree: 39.0%
- Neither agree nor disagree: 25.4%
- Disagree: 19.6%
- Strongly agree: 11.9%
- Strongly disagree: 4.1%

## Methodology

- Mode: Verasight panel recruited via random address-based sampling, random person-to-person text messaging, and dynamic online targeting
- Population: United States adults
- Field dates: 2025-02-28 → 2025-03-06
- Base (unweighted): 1,000
- Margin of error: +/- 3.5%
- Module: identity
- Sponsor: Verasight
- Weight variable: weight
- Weighting targets: age, race/ethnicity, sex, income, education, region, metropolitan status

## Source

- Canonical question URL: [https://verasight-spsp-2025.tiiny.co#agreement-with-statement-friends-should-hold-similar-values-variable-identity_14](https://verasight-spsp-2025.tiiny.co#agreement-with-statement-friends-should-hold-similar-values-variable-identity_14)

## Citation

Verasight SPSP Omnibus Survey #2025-010, fielded February 28-March 6, 2025, N=1,000 United States adults, +/- 3.5%.

Canonical question URL: [https://verasight-spsp-2025.tiiny.co#agreement-with-statement-friends-should-hold-similar-values-variable-identity_14](https://verasight-spsp-2025.tiiny.co#agreement-with-statement-friends-should-hold-similar-values-variable-identity_14)