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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States3.1%
2 Germany1.5%
3 United Kingdom1.4%
4 Australia1.0%
5 France0.8%
5 Italy0.8%
5 Japan 0.8%
8 Republic of Korea0.6%
9 Sweden0.5%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 18.365359 X +6.522
Correlation coefficient (r)0.294
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.086

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 933072.549020 X +38586.820
Correlation coefficient (r)0.598
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.358

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -237.385621 X +84.681
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.908
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.824

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 11.405229 X +1.336
Correlation coefficient (r)0.311
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.097

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -81.307190 X +15.160
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.103
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011