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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 C
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland32.6%
2 Austria 31.0%
3 Sweden29.8%
4 Slovenia27.2%
5 Japan26.4%
6 Republic of Korea25.8%
7 Denmark25.5%
7 New Zealand25.5%
9 Switzerland25.0%
10 Belgium23.5%
11 Germany23.0%
12 Norway22.3%
13 Australia21.7%
14 Spain21.5%
15 Iceland19.5%
16 United Kingdom18.8%
17 Czech Republic18.5%
18 France16.3%
19 Israel15.3%
20 United States15.0%
21 Poland13.6%
22 Chile13.1%
23 Italy12.8%
24 Portugal12.5%
25 Turkiye12.0%
26 Estonia9.6%
27 Slovakia8.5%
28 Lithuania7.4%
29 Hungary6.0%
30 Latvia5.4%

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 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 4.037382 X +5.926
Correlation coefficient (r)0.534
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.285

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 152868.164425 X +14538.400
Correlation coefficient (r)0.499
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.249

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 33.694346 X +73.830
Correlation coefficient (r)0.757
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.573

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.581421 X +1.700
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.129
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 4.823436 X +9.667
Correlation coefficient (r)0.089
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008