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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:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark58.7%
1 Norway58.7%
3 Iceland47.6%
4 Australia40.7%
5 Switzerland39.8%
6 Sweden37.9%
7 Finland35.6%
8 New Zealand33.3%
9 Belgium32.1%
10 United States26.0%
11 Austria22.6%
12 United Kingdom20.9%
13 Japan 20.0%
14 Germany18.6%
15 Spain17.0%
16 Republic of Korea15.1%
17 Czech Republic13.5%
18 Poland12.6%
19 Slovenia12.3%
20 France12.1%
21 Chile11.7%
21 Italy11.7%
23 Estonia9.8%
24 Israel9.3%
25 Turkiye8.9%
26 Slovakia7.4%
27 Portugal6.5%
28 Lithuania5.9%
29 Hungary3.7%
30 Latvia2.4%

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 = 2.604825 X +6.120
Correlation coefficient (r)0.709
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.503

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 126267.701375 X +15874.651
Correlation coefficient (r)0.850
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.722

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 12.305042 X +77.501
Correlation coefficient (r)0.570
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.325

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.066563 X +1.576
Correlation coefficient (r)0.030
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.107882 X +10.599
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.004
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000