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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 Austria31.7%
1 Finland 31.7%
3 Switzerland31.3%
4 Czech Republic31.0%
4 Germany31.0%
6 Sweden30.9%
7 Australia29.3%
8 New Zealand29.0%
9 Japan28.9%
10 Denmark27.4%
11 Norway24.8%
12 Israel22.5%
13 Iceland22.2%
14 Slovenia22.0%
15 United Kingdom19.0%
16 France16.8%
17 Chile16.4%
18 United States15.4%
19 Lithuania15.0%
20 Italy14.4%

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 = 2.745978 X +6.267
Correlation coefficient (r)0.402
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.162

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 97179.157113 X +28383.044
Correlation coefficient (r)0.270
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.073

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 17.674883 X +76.903
Correlation coefficient (r)0.433
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.187

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.002505 X +1.654
Correlation coefficient (r)0.000
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -1.310407 X +10.769
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.024
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001