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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 A
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy32.4%
2 Republic of Korea19.1%
3 Germany18.8%
4 United States17.1%
5 France 16.4%
6 United Kingdom14.9%
7 Japan11.1%
8 Sweden7.1%
9 Australia6.1%

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 = -2.931773 X +7.093
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.535
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.286

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -84154.255970 X +61623.287
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.436
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.190

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -5.183882 X +82.757
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.167
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.693819 X +1.754
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.422
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.178

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -20.045047 X +14.369
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.322
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.104