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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:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Austria31.7%
1 Finland 31.7%
3 Switzerland31.3%
4 Taiwan31.2%
5 Czech Republic31.0%
5 Germany31.0%
7 Sweden30.9%
8 Australia29.3%
9 New Zealand29.0%
10 Japan28.9%
11 Denmark27.4%
12 South Africa25.3%
13 Norway24.8%
14 Israel22.5%
15 Iceland22.2%
16 Slovenia22.0%
17 United Kingdom19.0%
18 Suriname18.0%
19 France16.8%
20 Chile16.4%
21 United States15.4%
22 Lithuania15.0%
23 Thailand14.6%
24 Italy14.4%
25 Croatia11.6%
26 Philippines11.1%
27 Russian Federation10.1%
28 Bulgaria7.0%
29 Venezuela6.1%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 209 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 6.479900 X +5.231
Correlation coefficient (r)0.689
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.475

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 191622.272902 X -2340.123
Correlation coefficient (r)0.611
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.373

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 32.853958 X +71.824
Correlation coefficient (r)0.543
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.295

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -0.949212 X +1.913
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.199
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 10.181953 X +11.220
Correlation coefficient (r)0.132
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017