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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:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland64.3%
2 Switzerland60.6%
3 Norway58.9%
4 Germany58.6%
5 New Zealand57.5%
6 United States57.1%
7 Australia56.8%
8 Austria56.5%
9 Denmark56.2%
9 United Kingdom56.2%
11 Sweden53.4%
12 France51.6%
13 Iceland51.5%
14 Japan51.2%
15 Slovenia49.8%
16 Lithuania48.4%
17 Italy43.5%
18 Israel42.6%
19 Chile 41.0%
20 Czech Republic40.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 2.860332 X +5.430
Correlation coefficient (r)0.438
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.192

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 216408.334513 X -62091.753
Correlation coefficient (r)0.628
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.394

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 11.405001 X +75.215
Correlation coefficient (r)0.292
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.085

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -1.629265 X +2.515
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.308
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.095

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 12.442728 X +3.874
Correlation coefficient (r)0.237
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.056