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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 E
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia35.9%
2 Iceland35.3%
3 Chile35.2%
4 Poland35.0%
5 Sweden32.3%
6 Denmark30.1%
7 Turkiye28.4%
8 Italy27.7%
9 United States26.4%
10 New Zealand24.7%
10 Norway24.7%
12 Lithuania24.0%
13 Australia23.3%
14 Slovakia23.2%
15 Austria22.9%
16 Slovenia22.3%
17 Czech Republic21.4%
17 Finland 21.4%
17 Republic of Korea21.4%
20 France20.8%
21 Spain20.6%
22 Portugal20.2%
23 Hungary19.5%
24 Estonia18.2%
25 Japan16.9%
26 Belgium16.7%
27 Israel16.0%
28 United Kingdom15.4%
29 Germany12.9%
30 Switzerland10.2%

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 = -0.110843 X +6.712
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.013
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -55702.530210 X +56386.626
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.160
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -15.218049 X +83.743
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.301
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.091

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.331759 X +1.668
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.065
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 2.542682 X +9.980
Correlation coefficient (r)0.041
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002