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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:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Bulgaria56.3%
2 Croatia55.2%
3 Russian Federation49.6%
4 Venezuela45.1%
5 Lithuania41.7%
6 Suriname36.3%
7 South Africa31.2%
8 Italy30.8%
9 Philippines29.6%
10 Slovenia28.6%
11 United States25.1%
12 Thailand23.9%
13 Chile20.9%
14 United Kingdom18.3%
15 Israel16.6%
16 France16.2%
17 Germany14.7%
18 Czech Republic12.8%
19 Austria11.8%
20 Taiwan11.7%
21 New Zealand10.6%
22 Japan 9.9%
23 Finland6.9%
24 Switzerland5.1%
25 Sweden4.8%
26 Australia4.6%
27 Iceland4.0%
28 Norway2.8%
29 Denmark1.6%

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 = -3.113451 X +7.284
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.777
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.604

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -121117.413841 X +65879.580
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.715
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.511

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -25.553237 X +83.945
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.728
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.530

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 0.251800 X +1.687
Correlation coefficient (r)0.097
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 6.554544 X +9.632
Correlation coefficient (r)0.185
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034