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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 Lithuania41.7%
2 Italy30.8%
3 Slovenia28.6%
4 United States25.1%
5 Chile20.9%
6 United Kingdom18.3%
7 Israel16.6%
8 France16.2%
9 Germany14.7%
10 Czech Republic12.8%
11 Austria 11.8%
12 New Zealand10.6%
13 Japan9.9%
14 Finland6.9%
15 Switzerland5.1%
16 Sweden4.8%
17 Australia4.6%
18 Iceland4.0%
19 Norway2.8%
20 Denmark1.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -2.277182 X +7.268
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.553
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.306

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -131176.220357 X +71102.208
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.604
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.365

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -16.474812 X +83.611
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.668
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.446

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.488405 X +1.725
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.147
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 9.228231 X +9.119
Correlation coefficient (r)0.279
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.078