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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany10.4%
2 Japan9.2%
3 United States8.7%
4 United Kingdom6.7%
5 France 5.7%
6 Italy5.6%

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

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.279723 X +6.509
Correlation coefficient (r)0.020
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 241081.711087 X +31661.695
Correlation coefficient (r)0.285
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.081

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -37.371543 X +84.434
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.324
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.105

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -2.014370 X +1.654
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.182
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 95.219317 X +1.966
Correlation coefficient (r)0.518
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.268