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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:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines15.1%
2 Israel11.3%
3 Portugal10.5%
4 Germany10.4%
5 Japan 9.2%
6 Venezuela9.1%
7 Switzerland9.0%
8 Belgium8.9%
9 United States8.7%
10 China8.6%
11 South Africa8.1%
12 Russian Federation7.7%
13 Spain7.3%
14 United Kingdom6.7%
15 Poland6.6%
16 Czech Republic6.5%
17 Slovakia6.3%
18 Austria5.8%
19 France5.7%
20 Italy5.6%
21 Estonia5.3%
22 Republic of Korea5.0%
23 Chile4.8%
24 Taiwan4.7%
25 Hungary4.4%
26 Argentina4.2%
27 Ukraine4.0%
28 Lithuania3.9%
28 Slovenia3.9%
30 Australia3.8%
31 Bulgaria3.4%
31 Finland3.4%
31 New Zealand3.4%
34 Turkiye3.2%
35 Sweden3.1%
36 Latvia2.6%
36 Norway2.6%
38 Croatia2.5%
39 Denmark1.8%
40 Iceland1.5%
41 Cyprus0.8%

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 = -2.841845 X +6.616
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.130
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -114524.103792 X +42212.822
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.144
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -27.376969 X +79.836
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.163
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 4.947236 X +1.341
Correlation coefficient (r)0.382
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.146

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -26.667678 X +12.070
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.157
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025