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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:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Canada30.0%
2 Sweden28.8%
3 Germany27.7%
4 Spain27.0%
5 Austria26.2%
6 New Zealand25.9%
7 Australia24.6%
8 Israel23.4%
9 France23.3%
10 Japan 22.1%
11 Norway19.8%
12 Portugal19.0%
12 United States19.0%
14 Czech Republic18.7%
15 Slovenia17.6%
16 Chile12.2%
17 Poland9.2%
18 Slovakia6.8%
19 Hungary5.9%
20 Latvia5.2%

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

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 4.237196 X +5.888
Correlation coefficient (r)0.674
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.454

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 160226.790357 X +9893.454
Correlation coefficient (r)0.626
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.392

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 28.108677 X +74.900
Correlation coefficient (r)0.804
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.646

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.258086 X +1.550
Correlation coefficient (r)0.061
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -14.676649 X +15.855
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.320
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.102