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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:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Suriname42.1%
2 Iceland39.5%
3 Venezuela38.1%
4 Israel37.6%
5 Croatia34.3%
5 Slovenia34.3%
7 Lithuania33.5%
8 Sweden32.7%
9 Bulgaria32.0%
10 Taiwan31.8%
11 Norway29.1%
12 Russian Federation28.3%
13 Chile28.2%
13 New Zealand28.2%
15 Australia27.4%
16 Denmark26.6%
17 Italy26.5%
18 South Africa26.4%
19 Austria25.7%
20 Philippines 25.2%
21 United States24.7%
22 Thailand24.4%
23 Finland24.1%
24 Germany22.3%
25 Japan20.9%
26 France20.0%
27 United Kingdom18.1%
28 Switzerland18.0%
29 Czech Republic15.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 209 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -0.171511 X +6.675
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.016
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -94492.648834 X +67513.554
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.233
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.054

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -21.018796 X +84.736
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.269
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.072

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 2.287858 X +1.037
Correlation coefficient (r)0.361
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.130

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 18.040191 X +6.023
Correlation coefficient (r)0.210
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.044