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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 A
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia67.1%
2 Hungary61.6%
3 Poland59.1%
4 Slovakia53.1%
5 Czech Republic31.1%
6 Slovenia29.6%
7 Chile28.7%
8 Israel21.0%
9 New Zealand19.2%
10 Canada18.4%
11 Portugal17.2%
11 United States17.2%
13 Germany14.9%
14 France12.5%
15 Sweden10.7%
16 Australia9.3%
17 Austria 8.4%
18 Spain7.5%
19 Japan6.6%
20 Norway3.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -1.083749 X +6.935
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.500
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.250

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -73402.822227 X +60314.580
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.632
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.399

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -15.820655 X +84.012
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.896
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.803

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.015787 X +1.631
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.009
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 3.920775 X +9.268
Correlation coefficient (r)0.277
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.077