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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:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Austria31.7%
1 Finland31.7%
3 Switzerland31.3%
4 Taiwan31.2%
5 Czech Republic31.0%
5 Germany31.0%
7 Sweden30.9%
8 Australia29.3%
9 New Zealand29.0%
10 Japan 28.9%
11 Denmark27.4%
12 South Africa25.3%
13 Norway24.8%
14 Israel22.5%
15 Iceland22.2%
16 Slovenia22.0%
17 United Kingdom19.0%
18 Suriname18.0%
19 France16.8%
20 Chile16.4%
21 United States15.4%
22 Lithuania15.0%
23 Thailand14.6%
24 Italy14.4%
25 Croatia11.6%
26 Philippines11.1%
27 Russian Federation10.1%
28 Bulgaria7.0%
29 Venezuela6.1%

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 = 4.934695 X +5.556
Correlation coefficient (r)0.638
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.407

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 180270.856380 X +810.698
Correlation coefficient (r)0.545
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.297

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 38.979035 X +70.056
Correlation coefficient (r)0.558
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.311

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -0.733892 X +1.898
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.143
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 7.768239 X +9.423
Correlation coefficient (r)0.110
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012