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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden32.3%
2 Italy27.7%
3 United States26.4%
4 Australia23.3%
5 Republic of Korea21.4%
6 France 20.8%
7 Japan16.9%
8 United Kingdom15.4%
9 Germany12.9%

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 = 2.633144 X +6.051
Correlation coefficient (r)0.385
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.148

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 79678.311870 X +30802.561
Correlation coefficient (r)0.330
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.109

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.459008 X +82.034
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.012
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.379319 X +1.401
Correlation coefficient (r)0.076
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 10.602448 X +8.863
Correlation coefficient (r)0.136
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018