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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:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France51.3%
2 Thailand47.4%
3 Philippines44.5%
4 United Kingdom42.2%
5 Venezuela40.7%
6 Italy40.5%
7 Chile39.7%
8 United States39.1%
9 Lithuania37.7%
10 Czech Republic37.0%
11 Taiwan36.4%
12 Japan 35.3%
13 New Zealand34.0%
13 Suriname34.0%
15 Bulgaria33.2%
16 Austria30.8%
16 Germany30.8%
18 Australia30.2%
19 Israel29.3%
20 Croatia28.1%
21 Russian Federation27.9%
22 South Africa27.4%
23 Slovenia26.0%
24 Switzerland24.0%
25 Sweden23.2%
26 Finland17.9%
27 Iceland16.6%
28 Denmark13.6%
29 Norway9.7%

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 = -3.444113 X +7.727
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.532
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.283

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -160629.071344 X +91134.687
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.579
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.335

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -13.611707 X +82.669
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.237
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.056

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 0.281168 X +1.653
Correlation coefficient (r)0.067
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -12.249488 X +14.975
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.211
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045