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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea64.0%
2 United Kingdom60.8%
3 Australia57.4%
4 Germany57.1%
5 Japan 55.5%
6 Italy53.0%
7 Sweden51.8%
8 France49.7%
9 United States49.0%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -3.675965 X +8.772
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.370
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.137

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -105653.378178 X +107969.420
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.426
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.181

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 16.640288 X +72.698
Correlation coefficient (r)0.401
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.161

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -3.905101 X +3.631
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.671
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.450

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 44.328486 X -10.332
Correlation coefficient (r)0.355
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.126