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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea64.0%
2 United Kingdom60.8%
3 Australia57.4%
4 Germany57.1%
5 Japan55.5%
6 Italy53.0%
7 Sweden51.8%
8 France 49.7%
9 United States49.0%

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 = -2.796238 X +8.175
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.328
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.108

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -128307.729086 X +119291.824
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.427
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.182

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 17.489366 X +72.250
Correlation coefficient (r)0.362
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.131

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -3.964619 X +3.680
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.634
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.402

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 28.426814 X -4.555
Correlation coefficient (r)0.294
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.086