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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:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland66.3%
2 Republic of Korea64.0%
3 Norway62.7%
4 Switzerland61.4%
5 United Kingdom60.8%
6 Denmark59.8%
7 Belgium59.4%
8 Lithuania59.3%
9 Turkiye58.7%
10 Australia57.4%
11 Austria57.3%
12 New Zealand57.2%
13 Germany57.1%
14 Spain56.9%
15 Japan 55.5%
16 Estonia55.4%
17 Slovenia55.2%
18 Hungary55.1%
19 Iceland54.7%
19 Latvia54.7%
21 Italy53.0%
22 Sweden51.8%
23 Israel51.0%
23 Portugal51.0%
25 France49.7%
26 United States49.0%
27 Poland48.7%
28 Chile44.6%
29 Czech Republic41.8%
30 Slovakia40.0%

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 = 2.067851 X +5.549
Correlation coefficient (r)0.219
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 146913.847876 X -37444.464
Correlation coefficient (r)0.385
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.148

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 21.864580 X +68.155
Correlation coefficient (r)0.394
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.155

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -1.582536 X +2.460
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.281
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.079

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 16.795123 X +1.341
Correlation coefficient (r)0.247
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.061