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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:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France23.2%
2 Czech Republic19.7%
3 Slovakia18.4%
4 Austria17.2%
5 Japan 16.9%
6 Portugal16.3%
7 United States16.1%
8 Slovenia15.3%
9 Chile14.9%
10 Germany13.7%
11 Australia13.5%
11 New Zealand13.5%
11 Philippines13.5%
14 Hungary13.4%
15 Russian Federation13.2%
16 Spain12.7%
17 Cyprus12.6%
18 Israel11.9%
19 Sweden11.6%
20 Poland11.4%
21 Latvia10.2%
22 Canada8.7%
23 Bulgaria8.5%
24 Norway7.2%

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 = -0.607733 X +6.613
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.044
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -125373.987165 X +55196.568
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.195
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 11.447462 X +77.288
Correlation coefficient (r)0.090
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.497504 X +1.585
Correlation coefficient (r)0.044
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 4.880729 X +9.265
Correlation coefficient (r)0.043
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002