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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 B
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France53.6%
2 United Kingdom41.9%
3 Italy41.0%
4 United States38.9%
5 Japan 38.5%
6 Germany35.4%
7 Republic of Korea35.0%
8 Australia29.5%
9 Sweden23.3%

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 = -2.177293 X +7.552
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.368
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.135

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -60393.641240 X +72093.441
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.409
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.167

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -3.693554 X +83.295
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.149
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.590384 X +1.248
Correlation coefficient (r)0.170
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -14.411682 X +19.609
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.194
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038