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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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy30.8%
2 United States25.1%
3 United Kingdom18.3%
4 France 16.2%
5 Germany14.7%
6 Japan9.9%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.646175 X +6.407
Correlation coefficient (r)0.175
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 70792.093175 X +36696.682
Correlation coefficient (r)0.317
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.100

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -10.573134 X +83.577
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.347
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.120

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.186886 X +1.534
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.064
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -16.959452 X +12.564
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.349
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.122