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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 New Zealand60.1%
2 Latvia59.2%
3 Norway56.9%
4 Slovenia56.4%
5 Australia55.4%
5 Austria55.4%
7 Germany54.6%
8 Japan 52.2%
9 Poland51.8%
10 Czech Republic50.3%
11 Israel50.2%
12 Canada49.9%
13 Spain49.4%
14 Chile49.2%
15 Portugal48.8%
16 Sweden48.5%
17 United States46.8%
18 Hungary46.1%
19 France46.0%
20 Slovakia41.8%

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 = 2.926275 X +5.160
Correlation coefficient (r)0.326
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.106

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 125192.308578 X -22315.443
Correlation coefficient (r)0.260
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.068

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 17.502591 X +71.080
Correlation coefficient (r)0.239
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.057

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.618653 X +1.946
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.081
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 16.106851 X +1.954
Correlation coefficient (r)0.275
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076