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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 C
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden29.8%
2 Japan 26.4%
3 Republic of Korea25.8%
4 Germany23.0%
5 Australia21.7%
6 United Kingdom18.8%
7 France16.3%
8 United States15.0%
9 Italy12.8%

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 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.180718 X +6.775
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.021
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1208.052675 X +49218.170
Correlation coefficient (r)0.006
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 18.993920 X +77.910
Correlation coefficient (r)0.523
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.274

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.089962 X +1.699
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.214
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.046

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 53.092914 X +3.026
Correlation coefficient (r)0.486
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.236