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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy32.4%
2 Republic of Korea19.1%
3 Germany18.8%
4 United States17.1%
5 France16.4%
6 United Kingdom14.9%
7 Japan 11.1%
8 Sweden7.1%
9 Australia6.1%

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 = -2.573174 X +7.145
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.403
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.162

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -88235.541762 X +63492.314
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.554
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.307

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -5.298596 X +82.753
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.199
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.523970 X +1.711
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.408
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.166

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -13.837515 X +16.410
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.173
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030