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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:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Cyprus57.4%
2 Finland32.6%
3 Austria31.0%
4 Sweden29.8%
5 Slovenia27.2%
6 Japan 26.4%
7 Taiwan26.3%
8 Republic of Korea25.8%
9 Denmark25.5%
9 New Zealand25.5%
11 Switzerland25.0%
12 Belgium23.5%
13 Germany23.0%
14 Norway22.3%
15 Australia21.7%
16 Spain21.5%
17 Iceland19.5%
18 United Kingdom18.8%
19 Czech Republic18.5%
20 Venezuela17.1%
21 France16.3%
22 Israel15.3%
23 United States15.0%
24 Poland13.6%
25 Chile13.1%
26 Italy12.8%
27 Portugal12.5%
27 Russian Federation12.5%
29 China12.2%
30 Turkiye12.0%
31 Philippines11.2%
32 Estonia9.6%
33 Argentina9.4%
34 South Africa8.7%
35 Slovakia8.5%
36 Lithuania7.4%
37 Croatia6.4%
38 Hungary6.0%
39 Bulgaria5.5%
40 Latvia5.4%
41 Ukraine4.8%

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

No data for 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 2.963485 X +5.918
Correlation coefficient (r)0.447
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.200

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 108859.811125 X +15968.137
Correlation coefficient (r)0.450
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.203

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 31.119351 X +72.704
Correlation coefficient (r)0.605
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.366

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.745722 X +1.764
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.189
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -8.280176 X +11.976
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.160
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026