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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 E
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Iceland39.5%
2 Israel37.6%
3 Slovenia34.3%
4 Lithuania33.5%
5 Sweden32.7%
6 Norway29.1%
7 Chile28.2%
7 New Zealand28.2%
9 Australia27.4%
10 Denmark26.6%
11 Italy26.5%
12 Austria25.7%
13 United States24.7%
14 Finland24.1%
15 Germany22.3%
16 Japan 20.9%
17 France20.0%
18 United Kingdom18.1%
19 Switzerland18.0%
20 Czech Republic15.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 1.115431 X +6.727
Correlation coefficient (r)0.149
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -1874.046769 X +52120.096
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.006
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.746982 X +81.141
Correlation coefficient (r)0.021
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 1.991887 X +1.091
Correlation coefficient (r)0.394
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.155

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 6.430041 X +11.362
Correlation coefficient (r)0.092
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008