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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:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Cyprus57.4%
2 Finland 32.6%
3 Austria31.0%
4 Sweden29.8%
5 Slovenia27.2%
6 Japan26.4%
7 Taiwan26.3%
8 Republic of Korea25.8%
9 Denmark25.5%
9 New Zealand25.5%
11 Switzerland25.0%
12 Belgium23.5%
13 Germany23.0%
14 Norway22.3%
15 Australia21.7%
16 Spain21.5%
17 Iceland19.5%
18 United Kingdom18.8%
19 Czech Republic18.5%
20 Venezuela17.1%
21 France16.3%
22 Israel15.3%
23 United States15.0%
24 Poland13.6%
25 Chile13.1%
26 Italy12.8%
27 Portugal12.5%
27 Russian Federation12.5%
29 China12.2%
30 Turkiye12.0%
31 Philippines11.2%
32 Estonia9.6%
33 Argentina9.4%
34 South Africa8.7%
35 Slovakia8.5%
36 Lithuania7.4%
37 Croatia6.4%
38 Hungary6.0%
39 Bulgaria5.5%
40 Latvia5.4%
41 Ukraine4.8%

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 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 3.632020 X +5.785
Correlation coefficient (r)0.471
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.222

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 114998.483767 X +14316.321
Correlation coefficient (r)0.497
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.247

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 25.183902 X +74.320
Correlation coefficient (r)0.578
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.334

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.967074 X +1.802
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.261
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.068

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -9.466663 X +14.824
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.150
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022