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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 B
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Israel11.3%
2 Portugal10.5%
3 Germany10.4%
4 Japan9.2%
5 Switzerland9.0%
6 Belgium8.9%
7 United States8.7%
8 Spain7.3%
9 United Kingdom6.7%
10 Poland6.6%
11 Czech Republic6.5%
12 Slovakia6.3%
13 Austria5.8%
14 France5.7%
15 Italy5.6%
16 Estonia5.3%
17 Republic of Korea5.0%
18 Chile4.8%
19 Hungary4.4%
20 Lithuania3.9%
20 Slovenia3.9%
22 Australia3.8%
23 Finland3.4%
23 New Zealand3.4%
25 Turkiye3.2%
26 Sweden 3.1%
27 Latvia2.6%
27 Norway2.6%
29 Denmark1.8%
30 Iceland1.5%

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 = -3.611150 X +6.892
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.168
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -28735.839969 X +44973.525
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.033
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 17.435213 X +79.182
Correlation coefficient (r)0.138
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.806635 X +1.487
Correlation coefficient (r)0.141
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -34.480950 X +12.543
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.224
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.050