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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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France51.3%
2 United Kingdom42.2%
3 Italy40.5%
4 United States39.1%
5 Japan 35.3%
6 Germany30.8%
7 Australia30.2%
8 Sweden23.2%

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 = -2.328606 X +7.688
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.473
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.224

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -59335.837677 X +73008.708
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.430
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.185

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -4.553554 X +83.390
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.183
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.364075 X +1.414
Correlation coefficient (r)0.170
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -9.956551 X +16.054
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.252
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.064