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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 E
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines12.4%
2 Norway7.8%
3 Cyprus6.5%
4 Portugal5.4%
5 Slovenia5.2%
6 Poland4.0%
7 Japan 3.8%
8 Spain3.1%
9 United States2.8%
10 Israel2.5%
11 Germany2.4%
12 Czech Republic2.3%
13 Hungary2.1%
13 Slovakia2.1%
15 Austria2.0%
16 Chile1.6%
17 Russian Federation1.4%
17 Sweden1.4%
19 Canada1.3%
19 New Zealand1.3%
21 Australia0.9%
22 France0.8%
23 Bulgaria0.7%
24 Latvia0.6%

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 = -2.051339 X +6.592
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.110
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -40981.457875 X +39040.009
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.048
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -20.929424 X +79.528
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.123
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 4.330166 X +1.520
Correlation coefficient (r)0.289
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -69.011473 X +12.083
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.454
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.206