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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:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia35.9%
2 Iceland35.3%
3 Chile35.2%
4 Poland35.0%
5 South Africa33.0%
6 China32.9%
7 Taiwan32.6%
8 Venezuela32.4%
9 Sweden32.3%
10 Argentina32.0%
11 Ukraine31.3%
12 Denmark30.1%
13 Croatia29.5%
13 Russian Federation29.5%
15 Philippines29.3%
16 Cyprus28.7%
17 Turkiye28.4%
18 Italy27.7%
19 United States26.4%
20 New Zealand24.7%
20 Norway24.7%
22 Lithuania24.0%
23 Australia23.3%
24 Slovakia23.2%
25 Austria22.9%
26 Bulgaria22.7%
27 Slovenia22.3%
28 Czech Republic21.4%
28 Finland 21.4%
28 Republic of Korea21.4%
31 France20.8%
32 Spain20.6%
33 Portugal20.2%
34 Hungary19.5%
35 Estonia18.2%
36 Japan16.9%
37 Belgium16.7%
38 Israel16.0%
39 United Kingdom15.4%
40 Germany12.9%
41 Switzerland10.2%

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 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -4.223076 X +7.505
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.363
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.132

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -143406.743916 X +71244.696
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.411
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.169

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -29.257628 X +86.138
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.442
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.195

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 0.867735 X +1.413
Correlation coefficient (r)0.154
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -6.551386 X +14.787
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.068
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005