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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:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Bulgaria56.3%
2 Croatia55.2%
3 Russian Federation49.6%
4 Venezuela45.1%
5 Lithuania41.7%
6 Suriname36.3%
7 South Africa31.2%
8 Italy 30.8%
9 Philippines29.6%
10 Slovenia28.6%
11 United States25.1%
12 Thailand23.9%
13 Chile20.9%
14 United Kingdom18.3%
15 Israel16.6%
16 France16.2%
17 Germany14.7%
18 Czech Republic12.8%
19 Austria11.8%
20 Taiwan11.7%
21 New Zealand10.6%
22 Japan9.9%
23 Finland6.9%
24 Switzerland5.1%
25 Sweden4.8%
26 Australia4.6%
27 Iceland4.0%
28 Norway2.8%
29 Denmark1.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 209 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -3.113451 X +7.284
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.777
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.604

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -118484.861219 X +66549.815
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.710
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.504

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -21.146114 X +83.498
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.655
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.429

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 0.547641 X +1.557
Correlation coefficient (r)0.209
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.044

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 6.554544 X +9.632
Correlation coefficient (r)0.185
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034