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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 B
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines17.7%
2 Japan14.1%
3 Poland10.4%
4 Germany9.4%
5 United States9.2%
6 France8.5%
7 Portugal 7.4%
8 Austria7.1%
9 Spain6.8%
10 Slovenia6.3%
11 Australia6.0%
11 Chile6.0%
13 Czech Republic5.9%
13 Slovakia5.9%
15 Israel5.7%
16 Hungary5.1%
17 Canada5.0%
17 New Zealand5.0%
19 Russian Federation4.6%
19 Sweden4.6%
21 Cyprus3.8%
22 Norway3.7%
23 Latvia2.2%
24 Bulgaria1.7%

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 = -1.975584 X +6.690
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.116
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -81614.379517 X +42383.163
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.135
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -6.559141 X +79.847
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.061
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 2.698914 X +1.438
Correlation coefficient (r)0.265
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.070

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -36.359915 X +14.960
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.252
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.064