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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:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Canada18.4%
2 United States17.2%
3 Germany14.9%
4 France12.5%
5 Sweden10.7%
6 Australia9.3%
7 Japan 6.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 4.340917 X +6.346
Correlation coefficient (r)0.429
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.184

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 88063.814358 X +42992.975
Correlation coefficient (r)0.357
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -41.597172 X +87.082
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.780
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.608

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.358956 X +1.523
Correlation coefficient (r)0.093
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -9.853154 X +15.047
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.256
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.066