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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 C
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France 23.0%
2 Germany18.2%
3 Japan17.5%
4 United Kingdom15.6%
5 Australia14.4%
6 Italy12.9%
7 United States12.8%
8 Sweden12.3%
9 Republic of Korea9.0%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.334151 X +6.577
Correlation coefficient (r)0.032
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -38657.064973 X +54080.737
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.105
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.485963 X +81.709
Correlation coefficient (r)0.025
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 4.620115 X +0.788
Correlation coefficient (r)0.601
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.361

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -58.013231 X +19.932
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.487
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.237