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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 E
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Canada34.7%
2 Sweden34.1%
3 United States25.5%
4 Australia24.3%
5 France 21.8%
6 Germany20.5%
7 Japan15.8%

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 = 4.628541 X +5.605
Correlation coefficient (r)0.806
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.650

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 95756.989983 X +29734.200
Correlation coefficient (r)0.474
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.225

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.664794 X +82.277
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.043
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.365746 X +1.503
Correlation coefficient (r)0.143
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 4.257171 X +10.158
Correlation coefficient (r)0.145
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021