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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 D
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia55.4%
2 Germany54.6%
3 Japan52.2%
4 Canada49.9%
5 Sweden48.5%
6 United States46.8%
7 France 46.0%

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 = -0.420026 X +6.985
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.039
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -46350.886667 X +77306.576
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.122
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 27.930878 X +67.756
Correlation coefficient (r)0.386
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.149

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.704003 X +2.456
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.353
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.125

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -20.842595 X +21.755
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.377
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.142