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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:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Cyprus32.9%
2 Canada30.0%
3 Sweden28.8%
4 Germany27.7%
5 Spain27.0%
6 Austria26.2%
7 New Zealand25.9%
8 Australia24.6%
9 Israel23.4%
10 France23.3%
11 Japan22.1%
12 Norway19.8%
13 Portugal 19.0%
13 United States19.0%
15 Czech Republic18.7%
16 Slovenia17.6%
17 Chile12.2%
18 Philippines11.3%
19 Poland9.2%
20 Slovakia6.8%
21 Russian Federation6.0%
22 Hungary5.9%
23 Latvia5.2%
24 Bulgaria3.9%

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 = 4.610864 X +5.698
Correlation coefficient (r)0.683
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.466

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 153803.783148 X +8256.880
Correlation coefficient (r)0.642
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.412

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 33.938056 X +73.090
Correlation coefficient (r)0.799
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.638

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.318524 X +1.680
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.079
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -18.166105 X +15.884
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.317
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.100