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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:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines6.8%
2 Norway6.2%
3 Venezuela5.3%
4 Republic of Korea5.0%
5 Iceland4.5%
6 Germany4.2%
7 Japan 4.0%
7 Portugal4.0%
9 Latvia3.7%
9 Poland3.7%
9 Switzerland3.7%
12 Denmark3.5%
12 Spain3.5%
12 United Kingdom3.5%
15 Russian Federation3.4%
16 Turkiye3.2%
17 Belgium3.0%
18 Chile2.9%
18 United States2.9%
20 Slovenia2.7%
21 Austria2.5%
22 Taiwan2.4%
23 China2.2%
23 South Africa2.2%
25 Australia2.1%
25 Czech Republic2.1%
25 Italy2.1%
28 Argentina1.9%
28 Croatia1.9%
28 Sweden1.9%
31 Lithuania1.7%
31 New Zealand1.7%
33 France1.6%
33 Ukraine1.6%
35 Estonia1.5%
36 Hungary1.4%
36 Slovakia1.4%
38 Finland1.2%
39 Cyprus1.1%
39 Israel1.1%
41 Bulgaria0.5%

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 = 1.101304 X +6.419
Correlation coefficient (r)0.023
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 298603.012326 X +27092.017
Correlation coefficient (r)0.173
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 16.932472 X +77.750
Correlation coefficient (r)0.046
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 2.102197 X +1.572
Correlation coefficient (r)0.075
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -39.014187 X +11.612
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.106
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011