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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 think best describes is the country today.
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 A
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia67.1%
2 Hungary61.6%
3 Poland59.1%
4 Slovakia53.1%
5 Czech Republic31.1%
6 Slovenia29.6%
7 Chile28.7%
8 Israel21.0%
9 New Zealand19.2%
10 Canada18.4%
11 Portugal17.2%
11 United States17.2%
13 Germany14.9%
14 France12.5%
15 Sweden10.7%
16 Australia9.3%
17 Austria 8.4%
18 Spain7.5%
19 Japan6.6%
20 Norway3.2%

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 = -1.083749 X +6.935
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.500
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.250

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -65988.538980 X +59687.455
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.650
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.423

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -12.166965 X +83.550
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.878
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.771

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.044303 X +1.568
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.025
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 3.920775 X +9.268
Correlation coefficient (r)0.277
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.077