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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 A
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal3.0%
2 United States2.4%
3 Poland2.2%
4 Germany1.9%
5 Canada1.7%
5 Chile 1.7%
7 Israel1.6%
8 Spain1.5%
9 Hungary1.4%
10 Slovenia1.3%
11 Sweden1.2%
12 Slovakia1.1%
13 Japan1.0%
14 New Zealand0.9%
15 Australia0.8%
16 Czech Republic0.6%
16 Norway0.6%
18 France0.5%
19 Austria0.3%
20 Latvia0.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -15.270933 X +6.864
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.259
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.067

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -460278.945546 X +48056.612
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.146
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -33.349819 X +80.517
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.070
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -4.582324 X +1.687
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.092
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -120.222563 X +11.798
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.313
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.098