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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:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 14.1%
2 Poland10.4%
3 Germany9.4%
4 United States9.2%
5 France8.5%
6 Portugal7.4%
7 Austria7.1%
8 Spain6.8%
9 Slovenia6.3%
10 Australia6.0%
10 Chile6.0%
12 Czech Republic5.9%
12 Slovakia5.9%
14 Israel5.7%
15 Hungary5.1%
16 Canada5.0%
16 New Zealand5.0%
18 Sweden4.6%
19 Norway3.7%
20 Latvia2.2%

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

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -5.945989 X +7.119
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.315
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.099

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -51026.107056 X +44756.353
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.066
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 21.016256 X +79.004
Correlation coefficient (r)0.200
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -2.410638 X +1.763
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.189
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -4.304846 X +13.264
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.031
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001