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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:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Bulgaria60.9%
2 New Zealand60.1%
3 Latvia59.2%
4 Norway56.9%
5 Slovenia56.4%
6 Australia55.4%
6 Austria55.4%
8 Germany54.6%
9 Russian Federation54.1%
10 Japan52.2%
11 Poland51.8%
12 Czech Republic50.3%
13 Israel50.2%
14 Canada49.9%
15 Spain49.4%
16 Chile49.2%
17 Portugal 48.8%
18 Sweden48.5%
19 United States46.8%
20 Hungary46.1%
21 France46.0%
22 Cyprus45.1%
23 Slovakia41.8%
24 Philippines39.5%

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 = 1.165617 X +5.960
Correlation coefficient (r)0.108
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 86094.606550 X -7202.472
Correlation coefficient (r)0.224
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.050

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 9.608341 X +74.485
Correlation coefficient (r)0.141
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -1.787803 X +2.536
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.275
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 36.027445 X -5.939
Correlation coefficient (r)0.391
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.153