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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany10.4%
2 Japan9.2%
3 United States8.7%
4 United Kingdom6.7%
5 France 5.7%
6 Italy5.6%
7 Republic of Korea5.0%
8 Australia3.8%
9 Sweden3.1%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -6.791333 X +7.066
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.396
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.157

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -12307.425214 X +49047.991
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.020
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -42.928686 X +84.709
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.441
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.194

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.018697 X +1.483
Correlation coefficient (r)0.001
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -27.715678 X +12.977
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.142
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020