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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:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States2.4%
2 Germany1.9%
3 Canada1.7%
4 Sweden1.2%
5 Japan 1.0%
6 Australia0.8%
7 France0.5%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 17.201271 X +6.668
Correlation coefficient (r)0.266
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.071

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 752827.860169 X +44048.193
Correlation coefficient (r)0.477
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.228

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -275.582627 X +85.497
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.808
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.653

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -6.207627 X +1.653
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.252
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.064

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 35.063559 X +13.310
Correlation coefficient (r)0.143
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020