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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:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Canada30.0%
2 Sweden28.8%
3 Germany27.7%
4 Spain27.0%
5 Austria26.2%
6 New Zealand25.9%
7 Australia24.6%
8 Israel23.4%
9 France23.3%
10 Japan22.1%
11 Norway19.8%
12 Portugal19.0%
12 United States19.0%
14 Czech Republic18.7%
15 Slovenia17.6%
16 Chile 12.2%
17 Poland9.2%
18 Slovakia6.8%
19 Hungary5.9%
20 Latvia5.2%

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 = 3.301824 X +6.018
Correlation coefficient (r)0.606
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.367

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 155133.209711 X +11658.864
Correlation coefficient (r)0.532
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.283

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 38.119225 X +72.606
Correlation coefficient (r)0.860
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.740

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.351428 X +1.559
Correlation coefficient (r)0.076
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -9.843658 X +12.172
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.277
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.077