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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 B
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines17.7%
2 Japan 14.1%
3 Poland10.4%
4 Germany9.4%
5 United States9.2%
6 France8.5%
7 Portugal7.4%
8 Austria7.1%
9 Spain6.8%
10 Slovenia6.3%
11 Australia6.0%
11 Chile6.0%
13 Czech Republic5.9%
13 Slovakia5.9%
15 Israel5.7%
16 Hungary5.1%
17 Canada5.0%
17 New Zealand5.0%
19 Russian Federation4.6%
19 Sweden4.6%
21 Cyprus3.8%
22 Norway3.7%
23 Latvia2.2%
24 Bulgaria1.7%

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

No data for 214 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -1.532888 X +6.632
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.106
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -118008.360351 X +45740.065
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.178
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -8.068314 X +79.424
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.061
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 3.270406 X +1.433
Correlation coefficient (r)0.283
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.080

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -28.454958 X +11.865
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.243
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.059