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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 A
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia68.3%
2 Hungary56.6%
3 Lithuania48.8%
4 Slovakia43.6%
5 Portugal40.8%
6 Turkiye40.0%
7 Poland37.1%
8 Estonia32.6%
9 Italy32.4%
10 Czech Republic30.9%
11 Slovenia26.4%
12 Chile24.3%
13 Republic of Korea19.1%
14 Germany18.8%
15 Israel18.6%
16 Austria17.4%
17 United States17.1%
18 Spain16.8%
19 France16.4%
20 United Kingdom14.9%
21 Japan 11.1%
22 Iceland9.7%
23 Sweden7.1%
24 Finland6.9%
25 Belgium6.8%
26 Switzerland6.7%
27 New Zealand6.5%
28 Australia6.1%
29 Norway1.9%
30 Denmark1.6%

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 = -2.169038 X +7.182
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.636
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.404

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -100494.278496 X +66289.910
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.728
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.530

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -16.531430 X +83.953
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.824
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.679

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.164445 X +1.628
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.081
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 2.506966 X +10.003
Correlation coefficient (r)0.102
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010