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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 Austria31.7%
1 Finland31.7%
3 Switzerland31.3%
4 Czech Republic31.0%
4 Germany31.0%
6 Sweden30.9%
7 Australia29.3%
8 New Zealand29.0%
9 Japan 28.9%
10 Denmark27.4%
11 Norway24.8%
12 Israel22.5%
13 Iceland22.2%
14 Slovenia22.0%
15 United Kingdom19.0%
16 France16.8%
17 Chile16.4%
18 United States15.4%
19 Lithuania15.0%
20 Italy14.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 3.952366 X +6.054
Correlation coefficient (r)0.519
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.269

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 113402.225012 X +23797.614
Correlation coefficient (r)0.358
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.128

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 14.610254 X +77.755
Correlation coefficient (r)0.412
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.170

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.537074 X +1.753
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.104
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.348684 X +13.161
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.005
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000