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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 A
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines8.8%
2 Portugal3.0%
3 United States2.4%
4 Poland2.2%
5 Germany1.9%
6 Canada1.7%
6 Chile1.7%
8 Israel1.6%
9 Spain1.5%
10 Hungary1.4%
11 Slovenia1.3%
12 Sweden1.2%
13 Slovakia1.1%
14 Japan 1.0%
15 New Zealand0.9%
16 Australia0.8%
16 Cyprus0.8%
16 Russian Federation0.8%
19 Czech Republic0.6%
19 Norway0.6%
21 Bulgaria0.5%
21 France0.5%
23 Austria0.3%
24 Latvia0.2%

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 = -5.599053 X +6.614
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.186
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -407413.334676 X +44016.588
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.294
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.086

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -99.486353 X +80.405
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.361
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.130

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 12.190049 X +1.467
Correlation coefficient (r)0.505
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.255

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -101.823950 X +11.505
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.415
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.172