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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 E
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan3.8%
2 United States2.8%
3 Germany2.4%
4 Sweden1.4%
5 Canada1.3%
6 Australia0.9%
7 France 0.8%

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 = -25.241702 X +7.257
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.704
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.496

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -273703.739031 X +59145.472
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.217
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.047

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -49.351393 X +82.802
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.206
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -10.837467 X +1.803
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.679
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.461

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 67.739412 X +9.936
Correlation coefficient (r)0.370
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.137