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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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany58.6%
2 United States57.1%
3 Australia56.8%
4 United Kingdom56.2%
5 Sweden53.4%
6 France 51.6%
7 Japan51.2%
8 Italy43.5%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 4.118556 X +4.493
Correlation coefficient (r)0.505
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.255

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 201897.584919 X -57884.782
Correlation coefficient (r)0.662
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.438

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -23.762346 X +94.462
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.459
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.211

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 2.465972 X +0.248
Correlation coefficient (r)0.603
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.364

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 33.193809 X -7.838
Correlation coefficient (r)0.486
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.236