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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 B
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France50.3%
2 Chile49.6%
3 Portugal46.9%
4 Spain37.4%
5 Czech Republic35.9%
6 Israel34.2%
7 New Zealand34.1%
8 Australia32.9%
9 Slovakia32.6%
10 United States32.4%
11 Japan 32.3%
12 Germany30.0%
13 Philippines29.8%
14 Hungary26.1%
15 Austria25.3%
16 Slovenia25.0%
17 Sweden24.8%
18 Bulgaria23.0%
19 Canada22.9%
19 Latvia22.9%
21 Russian Federation20.7%
22 Poland19.8%
23 Cyprus17.5%
24 Norway11.3%

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 = -0.113637 X +6.562
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.022
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -52495.415426 X +53467.900
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.217
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.047

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 10.153036 X +75.843
Correlation coefficient (r)0.211
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.631802 X +1.465
Correlation coefficient (r)0.150
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -9.511862 X +12.788
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.222
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.049