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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:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Israel55.8%
2 France53.6%
3 China51.4%
4 Chile48.0%
5 Estonia46.6%
6 United Kingdom41.9%
7 Spain41.2%
8 Italy41.0%
9 Philippines40.4%
10 Slovakia39.1%
11 United States38.9%
12 Japan38.5%
13 Taiwan36.9%
14 Lithuania36.2%
14 Portugal36.2%
16 Argentina36.1%
17 Venezuela36.0%
18 Turkiye35.9%
19 Germany35.4%
20 Czech Republic35.1%
21 Republic of Korea35.0%
21 Russian Federation35.0%
23 Belgium34.5%
24 New Zealand33.0%
24 Poland33.0%
26 Hungary32.3%
27 South Africa31.8%
28 Slovenia31.5%
29 Australia29.5%
30 Croatia28.8%
31 Bulgaria27.2%
32 Austria26.5%
33 Switzerland24.8%
34 Cyprus24.0%
35 Finland 23.7%
36 Sweden23.3%
37 Ukraine22.1%
38 Latvia20.2%
39 Iceland18.6%
40 Norway10.9%
41 Denmark10.7%

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 = -1.913992 X +7.082
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.247
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.061

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -81541.548502 X +62434.405
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.350
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.122

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -1.335022 X +79.241
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.031
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 1.169576 X +1.238
Correlation coefficient (r)0.316
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.100

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -13.571753 X +17.702
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.215
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.046