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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 C
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France23.2%
2 Czech Republic19.7%
3 Slovakia18.4%
4 Austria17.2%
5 Japan16.9%
6 Portugal16.3%
7 United States16.1%
8 Slovenia15.3%
9 Chile14.9%
10 Germany13.7%
11 Australia13.5%
11 New Zealand13.5%
11 Philippines 13.5%
14 Hungary13.4%
15 Russian Federation13.2%
16 Spain12.7%
17 Cyprus12.6%
18 Israel11.9%
19 Sweden11.6%
20 Poland11.4%
21 Latvia10.2%
22 Canada8.7%
23 Bulgaria8.5%
24 Norway7.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 214 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.350587 X +6.507
Correlation coefficient (r)0.021
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -70111.201141 X +46616.249
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.120
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 11.476632 X +77.809
Correlation coefficient (r)0.111
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.510469 X +1.549
Correlation coefficient (r)0.052
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 17.829131 X +10.026
Correlation coefficient (r)0.127
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016