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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia40.7%
2 Sweden37.9%
3 United States26.0%
4 United Kingdom20.9%
5 Japan 20.0%
6 Germany18.6%
7 Republic of Korea15.1%
8 France12.1%
9 Italy11.7%

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 = 3.185581 X +6.018
Correlation coefficient (r)0.671
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.450

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 92644.447851 X +28576.197
Correlation coefficient (r)0.782
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.612

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.512955 X +82.027
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.026
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.003453 X +1.243
Correlation coefficient (r)0.360
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.130

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -2.630117 X +14.804
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.044
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002