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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 France51.3%
2 United Kingdom42.2%
3 Italy40.5%
4 Chile39.7%
5 United States39.1%
6 Lithuania37.7%
7 Czech Republic37.0%
8 Japan 35.3%
9 New Zealand34.0%
10 Austria30.8%
10 Germany30.8%
12 Australia30.2%
13 Israel29.3%
14 Slovenia26.0%
15 Switzerland24.0%
16 Sweden23.2%
17 Finland17.9%
18 Iceland16.6%
19 Denmark13.6%
20 Norway9.7%

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 = -3.173536 X +7.907
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.765
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.585

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -115448.975011 X +89009.440
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.564
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.318

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -5.148171 X +82.997
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.261
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.068

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.248405 X +1.491
Correlation coefficient (r)0.076
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -2.052486 X +11.072
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.061
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004