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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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany31.0%
2 Sweden30.9%
3 Australia29.3%
4 Japan28.9%
5 United Kingdom19.0%
6 France 16.8%
7 United States15.4%
8 Italy14.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 1.843057 X +6.271
Correlation coefficient (r)0.345
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.119

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 10047.577796 X +47899.081
Correlation coefficient (r)0.050
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 16.357595 X +77.940
Correlation coefficient (r)0.482
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.232

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.153636 X +1.533
Correlation coefficient (r)0.057
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 14.278511 X +6.623
Correlation coefficient (r)0.319
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.102