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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 A
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States3.1%
2 Germany1.5%
3 United Kingdom1.4%
4 Australia1.0%
5 France 0.8%
5 Italy0.8%
5 Japan0.8%
8 Republic of Korea0.6%
9 Sweden0.5%

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 = 6.803268 X +6.548
Correlation coefficient (r)0.127
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1321284.967320 X +32837.120
Correlation coefficient (r)0.698
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.487

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -290.980392 X +85.328
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.956
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.914

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 12.516340 X +1.338
Correlation coefficient (r)0.318
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.101

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 13.496732 X +11.027
Correlation coefficient (r)0.022
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000