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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 C
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Austria31.7%
1 Finland31.7%
3 Switzerland31.3%
4 Czech Republic31.0%
4 Germany31.0%
6 Sweden 30.9%
7 Australia29.3%
8 New Zealand29.0%
9 Japan28.9%
10 Denmark27.4%
11 Norway24.8%
12 Israel22.5%
13 Iceland22.2%
14 Slovenia22.0%
15 United Kingdom19.0%
16 France16.8%
17 Chile16.4%
18 United States15.4%
19 Lithuania15.0%
20 Italy14.4%

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 = 2.745978 X +6.267
Correlation coefficient (r)0.402
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.162

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 92315.177172 X +31211.471
Correlation coefficient (r)0.274
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.075

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 13.061152 X +78.225
Correlation coefficient (r)0.402
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.162

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.564823 X +1.706
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.105
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -1.310407 X +10.769
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.024
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001