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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 E
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden32.3%
2 Italy27.7%
3 United States26.4%
4 Australia23.3%
5 Republic of Korea21.4%
6 France20.8%
7 Japan 16.9%
8 United Kingdom15.4%
9 Germany12.9%

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 = 2.158549 X +6.264
Correlation coefficient (r)0.271
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.073

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 64743.019253 X +35293.945
Correlation coefficient (r)0.325
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.106

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -3.327808 X +82.640
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.100
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.320349 X +1.399
Correlation coefficient (r)0.069
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 4.354201 X +13.258
Correlation coefficient (r)0.043
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002