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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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Italy30.8%
2 United States25.1%
3 United Kingdom18.3%
4 France16.2%
5 Germany14.7%
6 Japan 9.9%
7 Sweden4.8%
8 Australia4.6%

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 = -1.535233 X +7.075
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.334
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.112

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -40896.050745 X +57665.961
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.317
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.100

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -12.402894 X +83.654
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.534
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.285

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.661154 X +1.650
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.330
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.109

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -17.533258 X +15.139
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.474
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.225