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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 C
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden29.8%
2 Japan26.4%
3 Republic of Korea25.8%
4 Germany23.0%
5 Australia21.7%
6 United Kingdom18.8%
7 France 16.3%
8 United States15.0%
9 Italy12.8%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.027120 X +6.411
Correlation coefficient (r)0.138
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -33985.948182 X +55411.818
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.129
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 22.159994 X +77.265
Correlation coefficient (r)0.524
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.275

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.203234 X +1.738
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.220
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 42.067408 X +2.322
Correlation coefficient (r)0.497
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.247