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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%
7 Sweden4.8%
8 Australia4.6%

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 = -2.109150 X +7.026
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.491
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.241

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -24178.116561 X +53991.072
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.151
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -14.232488 X +83.951
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.523
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.274

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.810272 X +1.695
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.376
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.141

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -17.096489 X +12.596
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.476
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.227