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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 B
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan14.1%
2 Germany9.4%
3 United States9.2%
4 France 8.5%
5 Australia6.0%
6 Canada5.0%
7 Sweden4.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -11.411918 X +7.699
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.940
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.884

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -216365.668052 X +71462.528
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.507
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.257

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -2.993658 X +82.100
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.037
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -2.442379 X +1.794
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.452
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.204

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 5.992346 X +10.747
Correlation coefficient (r)0.097
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009