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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France 53.6%
2 United Kingdom41.9%
3 Italy41.0%
4 United States38.9%
5 Japan38.5%
6 Germany35.4%
7 Republic of Korea35.0%
8 Australia29.5%
9 Sweden23.3%

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 = -2.391899 X +7.523
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.471
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.222

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -59400.227266 X +70500.796
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.332
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.110

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -5.714581 X +84.074
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.199
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.396935 X +1.336
Correlation coefficient (r)0.107
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -17.208862 X +17.630
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.299
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.089