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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 B
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France50.3%
2 Chile49.6%
3 Portugal46.9%
4 Spain37.4%
5 Czech Republic35.9%
6 Israel34.2%
7 New Zealand34.1%
8 Australia32.9%
9 Slovakia32.6%
10 United States32.4%
11 Japan 32.3%
12 Germany30.0%
13 Hungary26.1%
14 Austria25.3%
15 Slovenia25.0%
16 Sweden24.8%
17 Canada22.9%
17 Latvia22.9%
19 Poland19.8%
20 Norway11.3%

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 = -1.432095 X +7.115
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.328
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.108

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -93052.108965 X +71253.878
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.398
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.158

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 4.084043 X +78.805
Correlation coefficient (r)0.115
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.456640 X +1.484
Correlation coefficient (r)0.124
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -11.728271 X +13.916
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.412
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.170