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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 D
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Norway57.9%
2 Austria38.1%
3 Cyprus37.3%
4 Japan35.2%
5 Sweden34.3%
6 Australia32.3%
7 United States28.6%
8 Canada27.5%
9 Germany25.0%
9 Spain25.0%
11 Slovenia22.7%
12 Philippines20.7%
13 New Zealand19.4%
14 Israel19.0%
15 France13.1%
16 Czech Republic12.0%
17 Portugal 11.5%
18 Chile7.9%
19 Poland7.8%
20 Slovakia5.4%
21 Hungary4.3%
21 Latvia4.3%
23 Russian Federation3.4%
24 Bulgaria2.5%

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 = 2.617061 X +6.016
Correlation coefficient (r)0.614
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.377

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 119007.215711 X +12315.636
Correlation coefficient (r)0.786
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.618

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 17.036142 X +75.889
Correlation coefficient (r)0.635
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.403

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.311281 X +1.685
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.121
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -7.098531 X +13.969
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.196
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038