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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 E
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Norway6.2%
2 Republic of Korea5.0%
3 Iceland4.5%
4 Germany4.2%
5 Japan 4.0%
5 Portugal4.0%
7 Latvia3.7%
7 Poland3.7%
7 Switzerland3.7%
10 Denmark3.5%
10 Spain3.5%
10 United Kingdom3.5%
13 Turkiye3.2%
14 Belgium3.0%
15 Chile2.9%
15 United States2.9%
17 Slovenia2.7%
18 Austria2.5%
19 Australia2.1%
19 Czech Republic2.1%
19 Italy2.1%
22 Sweden1.9%
23 Lithuania1.7%
23 New Zealand1.7%
25 France1.6%
26 Estonia1.5%
27 Hungary1.4%
27 Slovakia1.4%
29 Finland1.2%
30 Israel1.1%

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 = -4.364639 X +6.812
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.094
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 614479.691233 X +25616.169
Correlation coefficient (r)0.327
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.107

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 75.489800 X +78.000
Correlation coefficient (r)0.276
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -10.762727 X +1.900
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.389
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.151

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 12.401029 X +10.218
Correlation coefficient (r)0.037
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001