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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:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States3.1%
2 Slovakia2.9%
3 Austria1.9%
4 Portugal1.8%
5 Hungary1.7%
5 Poland1.7%
7 Germany1.5%
8 Slovenia1.4%
8 Switzerland1.4%
8 Turkiye1.4%
8 United Kingdom1.4%
12 Czech Republic1.2%
12 Israel1.2%
14 Australia1.0%
14 Lithuania1.0%
14 Spain1.0%
17 Belgium0.9%
18 Chile0.8%
18 France0.8%
18 Italy0.8%
18 Japan 0.8%
22 New Zealand0.7%
23 Estonia0.6%
23 Republic of Korea0.6%
25 Sweden0.5%
26 Norway0.4%
27 Iceland0.2%
28 Denmark0.1%
28 Finland0.1%

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 9 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -32.764242 X +7.074
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.401
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.161

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -654617.302053 X +51497.658
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.199
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -243.795971 X +83.180
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.542
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.294

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 2.727753 X +1.560
Correlation coefficient (r)0.055
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -47.272968 X +10.923
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.082
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007