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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 C
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France 23.2%
2 Japan16.9%
3 United States16.1%
4 Germany13.7%
7 Canada8.7%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -2.588012 X +7.009
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.425
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.181

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -60819.121680 X +63103.566
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.182
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 8.703811 X +79.752
Correlation coefficient (r)0.189
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 2.909209 X +1.045
Correlation coefficient (r)0.683
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.466

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 2.568202 X +10.598
Correlation coefficient (r)0.056
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003