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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 B
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France 50.3%
2 Australia32.9%
3 United States32.4%
4 Japan32.3%
5 Germany30.0%
6 Sweden24.8%
7 Canada22.9%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.716090 X +7.326
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.381
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.145

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -45361.735007 X +68525.439
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.286
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.082

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.385692 X +82.304
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.046
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 1.122411 X +1.234
Correlation coefficient (r)0.560
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.314

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -4.528262 X +12.692
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.197
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.039