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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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden37.8%
2 Australia34.8%
3 Japan 22.8%
4 Germany21.2%
5 United Kingdom18.2%
6 United States17.7%
7 France14.1%
8 Italy11.6%

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 = 2.596211 X +6.258
Correlation coefficient (r)0.572
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.327

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 71118.702998 X +35464.934
Correlation coefficient (r)0.559
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.312

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 7.275097 X +80.104
Correlation coefficient (r)0.318
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.101

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.414876 X +1.455
Correlation coefficient (r)0.210
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.044

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 14.474504 X +9.188
Correlation coefficient (r)0.397
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.158