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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:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Czech Republic29.1%
2 Slovakia27.7%
3 France23.0%
4 Israel20.6%
5 Estonia20.4%
6 Hungary19.3%
7 Germany18.2%
8 Switzerland18.0%
9 Japan 17.5%
10 Slovenia17.1%
11 Portugal16.4%
12 United Kingdom15.6%
13 Russian Federation14.8%
14 Chile14.6%
15 Australia14.4%
16 Spain14.2%
17 Belgium14.1%
18 Bulgaria14.0%
18 New Zealand14.0%
20 Cyprus13.6%
21 Italy12.9%
22 United States12.8%
23 Philippines12.4%
24 China12.3%
24 Sweden12.3%
26 Austria12.2%
27 Venezuela12.1%
28 Lithuania11.7%
29 Argentina11.6%
30 South Africa9.9%
31 Croatia9.6%
31 Norway9.6%
33 Republic of Korea9.0%
34 Finland8.7%
35 Taiwan8.5%
36 Iceland8.3%
36 Turkiye8.3%
36 Ukraine8.3%
39 Denmark8.2%
40 Poland8.1%
41 Latvia6.9%

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 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 1.372415 X +6.259
Correlation coefficient (r)0.105
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 895.256577 X +35401.204
Correlation coefficient (r)0.002
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 14.066106 X +76.254
Correlation coefficient (r)0.138
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 1.337090 X +1.443
Correlation coefficient (r)0.171
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -17.093976 X +12.907
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.167
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028