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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 E
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines 12.4%
2 Norway7.8%
3 Cyprus6.5%
4 Portugal5.4%
5 Slovenia5.2%
6 Poland4.0%
7 Japan3.8%
8 Spain3.1%
9 United States2.8%
10 Israel2.5%
11 Germany2.4%
12 Czech Republic2.3%
13 Hungary2.1%
13 Slovakia2.1%
15 Austria2.0%
16 Chile1.6%
17 Russian Federation1.4%
17 Sweden1.4%
19 Canada1.3%
19 New Zealand1.3%
21 Australia0.9%
22 France0.8%
23 Bulgaria0.7%
24 Latvia0.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 214 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -3.087669 X +6.652
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.140
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -80972.940086 X +39380.953
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.104
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -19.312782 X +80.003
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.139
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 3.138255 X +1.523
Correlation coefficient (r)0.237
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.056

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -86.359949 X +15.181
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.461
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.213