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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:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Czech Republic29.1%
2 Slovakia27.7%
3 France23.0%
4 Israel20.6%
5 Estonia20.4%
6 Hungary19.3%
7 Germany18.2%
8 Switzerland18.0%
9 Japan 17.5%
10 Slovenia17.1%
11 Portugal16.4%
12 United Kingdom15.6%
13 Chile14.6%
14 Australia14.4%
15 Spain14.2%
16 Belgium14.1%
17 New Zealand14.0%
18 Italy12.9%
19 United States12.8%
20 Sweden12.3%
21 Austria12.2%
22 Lithuania11.7%
23 Norway9.6%
24 Republic of Korea9.0%
25 Finland8.7%
26 Iceland8.3%
26 Turkiye8.3%
28 Denmark8.2%
29 Poland8.1%
30 Latvia6.9%

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 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.058366 X +6.728
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.005
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -66214.836400 X +52737.938
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.172
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -3.933621 X +81.081
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.082
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.539306 X +1.344
Correlation coefficient (r)0.266
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.071

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -11.773869 X +15.239
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.121
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015