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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 D
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia40.7%
2 Sweden37.9%
3 United States26.0%
4 United Kingdom20.9%
5 Japan20.0%
6 Germany18.6%
7 Republic of Korea15.1%
8 France 12.1%
9 Italy11.7%

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 = 3.137788 X +5.919
Correlation coefficient (r)0.770
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.593

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 100883.284618 X +25497.326
Correlation coefficient (r)0.702
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.493

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.030159 X +81.940
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.001
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.277058 X +1.196
Correlation coefficient (r)0.427
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.182

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 7.110565 X +9.581
Correlation coefficient (r)0.154
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024