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Question: These five diagrams show different types of society. Please read the descriptions and look at the diagrams and decide which you would prefer the country ought to be.
Type AType BType CType DType E
A small elite at the top, very few people in the middle and the great mass of people at the bottom.A society like a pyramid with a small elite at the top, more people in the middle, and most at the bottom.A pyramid except that just a few people are at the bottom.A society with most people in the middle.Many people near the top, and only a few near the bottom.

Data: % of Type E
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Iceland39.5%
2 Israel37.6%
3 Slovenia34.3%
4 Lithuania33.5%
5 Sweden32.7%
6 Norway29.1%
7 Chile 28.2%
7 New Zealand28.2%
9 Australia27.4%
10 Denmark26.6%
11 Italy26.5%
12 Austria25.7%
13 United States24.7%
14 Finland24.1%
15 Germany22.3%
16 Japan20.9%
17 France20.0%
18 United Kingdom18.1%
19 Switzerland18.0%
20 Czech Republic15.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 2.540160 X +6.264
Correlation coefficient (r)0.379
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.144

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 2880.829091 X +53093.547
Correlation coefficient (r)0.009
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.829384 X +81.651
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.026
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 1.753286 X +1.100
Correlation coefficient (r)0.333
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.111

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 10.746080 X +7.584
Correlation coefficient (r)0.199
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040