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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 D
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Norway57.9%
2 Austria38.1%
3 Japan 35.2%
4 Sweden34.3%
5 Australia32.3%
6 United States28.6%
7 Canada27.5%
8 Germany25.0%
8 Spain25.0%
10 Slovenia22.7%
11 New Zealand19.4%
12 Israel19.0%
13 France13.1%
14 Czech Republic12.0%
15 Portugal11.5%
16 Chile7.9%
17 Poland7.8%
18 Slovakia5.4%
19 Hungary4.3%
19 Latvia4.3%

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 = 1.857357 X +6.265
Correlation coefficient (r)0.601
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.361

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 139831.633349 X +11941.308
Correlation coefficient (r)0.845
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.714

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 17.188668 X +76.378
Correlation coefficient (r)0.683
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.466

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.244147 X +1.680
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.094
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 1.460261 X +9.926
Correlation coefficient (r)0.073
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005