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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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden37.8%
2 Australia34.8%
3 Japan22.8%
4 Germany21.2%
5 United Kingdom18.2%
6 United States17.7%
7 France 14.1%
8 Italy11.6%

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 = 3.004392 X +6.029
Correlation coefficient (r)0.710
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.504

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 65551.687431 X +35629.737
Correlation coefficient (r)0.414
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 9.347856 X +79.655
Correlation coefficient (r)0.348
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.121

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.639151 X +1.426
Correlation coefficient (r)0.301
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.091

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 17.963993 X +5.936
Correlation coefficient (r)0.507
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.257