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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:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland66.3%
2 Republic of Korea64.0%
3 Norway62.7%
4 Switzerland61.4%
5 United Kingdom60.8%
6 Denmark59.8%
7 Belgium59.4%
8 Lithuania59.3%
9 Turkiye58.7%
10 Australia57.4%
11 Austria57.3%
12 New Zealand57.2%
13 Germany57.1%
14 Spain56.9%
15 Japan55.5%
16 Estonia55.4%
17 Slovenia55.2%
18 Hungary55.1%
19 Iceland54.7%
19 Latvia 54.7%
21 Italy53.0%
22 Sweden51.8%
23 Israel51.0%
23 Portugal51.0%
25 France49.7%
26 United States49.0%
27 Poland48.7%
28 Chile44.6%
29 Czech Republic41.8%
30 Slovakia40.0%

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 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 2.244001 X +5.485
Correlation coefficient (r)0.208
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.043

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 144534.181081 X -36513.911
Correlation coefficient (r)0.410
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.168

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 15.908157 X +71.753
Correlation coefficient (r)0.359
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.129

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -1.522625 X +2.408
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.287
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.082

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 22.988356 X +0.860
Correlation coefficient (r)0.257
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.066