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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 A
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Bulgaria69.9%
2 Russian Federation68.4%
3 Latvia67.1%
4 Hungary61.6%
5 Poland59.1%
6 Slovakia53.1%
7 Czech Republic31.1%
8 Slovenia29.6%
9 Chile28.7%
10 Philippines25.9%
11 Israel21.0%
12 New Zealand19.2%
13 Canada18.4%
14 Portugal17.2%
14 United States17.2%
16 Germany14.9%
17 France12.5%
18 Sweden10.7%
19 Australia9.3%
20 Austria8.4%
21 Spain7.5%
22 Japan 6.6%
23 Cyprus5.8%
24 Norway3.2%

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 = -1.325523 X +6.896
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.581
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.338

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -64403.873213 X +55652.392
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.614
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.377

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -17.153384 X +83.642
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.822
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.676

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.035576 X +1.664
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.019
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 6.634581 X +8.101
Correlation coefficient (r)0.357
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127