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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:
40 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Venezuela12.6%
2 Philippines5.9%
3 United States3.1%
4 Slovakia2.9%
5 South Africa2.4%
6 Austria1.9%
6 China1.9%
8 Portugal1.8%
8 Russian Federation1.8%
10 Hungary1.7%
10 Poland1.7%
12 Germany1.5%
13 Slovenia1.4%
13 Switzerland1.4%
13 Turkiye1.4%
13 United Kingdom1.4%
17 Croatia1.2%
17 Czech Republic1.2%
17 Israel1.2%
20 Ukraine1.1%
21 Australia1.0%
21 Lithuania1.0%
21 Spain1.0%
24 Belgium0.9%
25 Argentina0.8%
25 Chile0.8%
25 France0.8%
25 Italy0.8%
25 Japan 0.8%
30 New Zealand0.7%
31 Estonia0.6%
31 Republic of Korea0.6%
33 Sweden0.5%
34 Norway0.4%
35 Taiwan0.3%
36 Bulgaria0.2%
36 Iceland0.2%
38 Cyprus0.1%
38 Denmark0.1%
38 Finland0.1%

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 198 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -10.199590 X +6.612
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.312
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.097

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -389215.206032 X +41820.193
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.327
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.107

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data39
Regression equation
Y = -113.693034 X +80.132
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.455
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.207

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data39
Regression equation
Y = 7.893942 X +1.510
Correlation coefficient (r)0.406
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.165

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data39
Regression equation
Y = -63.802473 X +11.360
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.255
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.065