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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:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Cyprus37.7%
2 Canada34.7%
3 Sweden34.1%
4 Hungary34.0%
5 Slovakia32.9%
6 Norway31.6%
7 Israel30.6%
8 Spain29.6%
9 Bulgaria28.4%
10 Chile28.3%
11 Latvia28.1%
12 Russian Federation27.3%
13 United States25.5%
14 Portugal24.5%
15 Australia24.3%
16 Poland24.2%
17 Czech Republic23.5%
18 France21.8%
19 Slovenia20.8%
20 Germany20.5%
20 New Zealand20.5%
20 Philippines20.5%
23 Austria20.0%
24 Japan 15.8%

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 = 0.095611 X +6.503
Correlation coefficient (r)0.011
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 38482.420578 X +27520.432
Correlation coefficient (r)0.094
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -3.505705 X +79.813
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.043
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.571597 X +1.806
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.080
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -8.691944 X +12.258
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.119
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014