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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 D
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland66.3%
2 Republic of Korea64.0%
3 Norway62.7%
4 Switzerland61.4%
5 United Kingdom60.8%
6 Denmark59.8%
7 Bulgaria59.7%
8 Belgium59.4%
9 Lithuania59.3%
10 Turkiye58.7%
11 Australia57.4%
12 Austria57.3%
13 Croatia57.2%
13 New Zealand57.2%
15 Germany57.1%
16 Spain56.9%
17 Cyprus56.8%
18 Japan 55.5%
19 Estonia55.4%
19 Ukraine55.4%
21 Slovenia55.2%
22 Hungary55.1%
23 Iceland54.7%
23 Latvia54.7%
25 Taiwan53.9%
26 Italy53.0%
27 Sweden51.8%
28 Argentina51.4%
29 Israel51.0%
29 Portugal51.0%
31 France49.7%
32 United States49.0%
33 Poland48.7%
34 South Africa46.6%
35 Russian Federation46.2%
36 Chile44.6%
37 China44.4%
38 Czech Republic41.8%
39 Slovakia40.0%
40 Philippines37.3%
41 Venezuela33.9%

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 = 2.946258 X +4.875
Correlation coefficient (r)0.316
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.100

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 166204.392263 X -53344.973
Correlation coefficient (r)0.489
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.239

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 36.132995 X +58.913
Correlation coefficient (r)0.504
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.254

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -2.482559 X +2.958
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.450
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.203

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 15.359115 X +2.295
Correlation coefficient (r)0.213
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045