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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 C
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Czech Republic29.1%
2 Slovakia27.7%
3 France23.0%
4 Israel20.6%
5 Estonia20.4%
6 Hungary19.3%
7 Germany18.2%
8 Switzerland18.0%
9 Japan17.5%
10 Slovenia17.1%
11 Portugal16.4%
12 United Kingdom15.6%
13 Chile 14.6%
14 Australia14.4%
15 Spain14.2%
16 Belgium14.1%
17 New Zealand14.0%
18 Italy12.9%
19 United States12.8%
20 Sweden12.3%
21 Austria12.2%
22 Lithuania11.7%
23 Norway9.6%
24 Republic of Korea9.0%
25 Finland8.7%
26 Iceland8.3%
26 Turkiye8.3%
28 Denmark8.2%
29 Poland8.1%
30 Latvia6.9%

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 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -1.016595 X +6.837
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.099
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -80630.419572 X +55245.467
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.194
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -5.448402 X +80.982
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.090
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.910878 X +1.308
Correlation coefficient (r)0.312
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.097

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -14.412890 X +12.705
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.195
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038