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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:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Suriname42.1%
2 Iceland39.5%
3 Venezuela38.1%
4 Israel37.6%
5 Croatia34.3%
5 Slovenia34.3%
7 Lithuania33.5%
8 Sweden32.7%
9 Bulgaria32.0%
10 Taiwan31.8%
11 Norway29.1%
12 Russian Federation28.3%
13 Chile28.2%
13 New Zealand28.2%
15 Australia27.4%
16 Denmark26.6%
17 Italy26.5%
18 South Africa26.4%
19 Austria25.7%
20 Philippines25.2%
21 United States24.7%
22 Thailand24.4%
23 Finland 24.1%
24 Germany22.3%
25 Japan20.9%
26 France20.0%
27 United Kingdom18.1%
28 Switzerland18.0%
29 Czech Republic15.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 209 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -1.976203 X +7.184
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.155
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -98443.314426 X +66683.579
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.253
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.064

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -16.984367 X +83.553
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.231
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 2.321942 X +1.062
Correlation coefficient (r)0.401
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.161

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 12.609800 X +9.853
Correlation coefficient (r)0.135
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018