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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:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Cyprus32.9%
2 Canada30.0%
3 Sweden28.8%
4 Germany27.7%
5 Spain27.0%
6 Austria26.2%
7 New Zealand25.9%
8 Australia24.6%
9 Israel23.4%
10 France23.3%
11 Japan 22.1%
12 Norway19.8%
13 Portugal19.0%
13 United States19.0%
15 Czech Republic18.7%
16 Slovenia17.6%
17 Chile12.2%
18 Philippines11.3%
19 Poland9.2%
20 Slovakia6.8%
21 Russian Federation6.0%
22 Hungary5.9%
23 Latvia5.2%
24 Bulgaria3.9%

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

No data for 214 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 3.474972 X +5.882
Correlation coefficient (r)0.607
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.368

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 147749.111531 X +10282.092
Correlation coefficient (r)0.562
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.316

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 43.920172 X +70.708
Correlation coefficient (r)0.839
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.704

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.326982 X +1.715
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.071
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -13.575195 X +12.469
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.291
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.085