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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 E
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia35.9%
2 Iceland35.3%
3 Chile35.2%
4 Poland35.0%
5 South Africa33.0%
6 China32.9%
7 Taiwan32.6%
8 Venezuela32.4%
9 Sweden32.3%
10 Argentina32.0%
11 Ukraine31.3%
12 Denmark30.1%
13 Croatia29.5%
13 Russian Federation29.5%
15 Philippines29.3%
16 Cyprus28.7%
17 Turkiye28.4%
18 Italy27.7%
19 United States26.4%
20 New Zealand24.7%
20 Norway24.7%
22 Lithuania24.0%
23 Australia23.3%
24 Slovakia23.2%
25 Austria22.9%
26 Bulgaria22.7%
27 Slovenia22.3%
28 Czech Republic21.4%
28 Finland21.4%
28 Republic of Korea21.4%
31 France20.8%
32 Spain20.6%
33 Portugal20.2%
34 Hungary19.5%
35 Estonia18.2%
36 Japan 16.9%
37 Belgium16.7%
38 Israel16.0%
39 United Kingdom15.4%
40 Germany12.9%
41 Switzerland10.2%

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 = -2.686831 X +7.130
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.268
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.072

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -132967.482226 X +69153.532
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.365
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.133

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -35.037690 X +87.027
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.449
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.202

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 0.341330 X +1.546
Correlation coefficient (r)0.057
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 4.055298 X +9.488
Correlation coefficient (r)0.052
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003