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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:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Ukraine69.1%
2 Latvia68.3%
3 Bulgaria63.5%
4 Croatia57.4%
5 Hungary56.6%
6 South Africa50.8%
7 Lithuania48.8%
8 Argentina45.6%
9 Slovakia43.6%
10 Portugal40.8%
11 Russian Federation40.7%
12 Turkiye40.0%
13 Poland37.1%
14 Estonia32.6%
15 Italy32.4%
16 Philippines31.5%
17 Venezuela31.4%
18 Czech Republic30.9%
19 Slovenia26.4%
20 Chile24.3%
21 China21.9%
22 Republic of Korea19.1%
23 Germany18.8%
24 Israel18.6%
25 Taiwan18.3%
26 Austria17.4%
27 United States17.1%
28 Spain16.8%
29 France16.4%
30 United Kingdom14.9%
31 Japan 11.1%
32 Iceland9.7%
33 Sweden7.1%
34 Finland6.9%
35 Belgium6.8%
36 Switzerland6.7%
37 New Zealand6.5%
38 Australia6.1%
39 Cyprus4.5%
40 Norway1.9%
41 Denmark1.6%

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 = -2.470233 X +7.125
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.706
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.498

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -91570.713574 X +60540.171
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.718
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.516

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -20.458894 X +83.865
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.759
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.576

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 0.045800 X +1.619
Correlation coefficient (r)0.022
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 6.182388 X +8.803
Correlation coefficient (r)0.228
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052