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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea5.0%
2 Germany4.2%
3 Japan4.0%
4 United Kingdom3.5%
5 United States2.9%
6 Australia2.1%
6 Italy2.1%
8 Sweden1.9%
9 France 1.6%

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 = -21.091173 X +7.267
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.590
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.348

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -455471.544715 X +62068.081
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.361
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.130

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 3.397213 X +81.830
Correlation coefficient (r)0.017
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -18.025552 X +2.031
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.687
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.472

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 191.451800 X +5.377
Correlation coefficient (r)0.471
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.222