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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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany31.0%
2 Sweden30.9%
3 Australia29.3%
4 Japan 28.9%
5 United Kingdom19.0%
6 France16.8%
7 United States15.4%
8 Italy14.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 1.515672 X +6.485
Correlation coefficient (r)0.264
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.070

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 32991.893124 X +43648.382
Correlation coefficient (r)0.205
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 13.971109 X +78.482
Correlation coefficient (r)0.483
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.233

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.033811 X +1.555
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.014
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 16.888356 X +8.492
Correlation coefficient (r)0.367
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.135