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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 B
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France51.3%
2 United Kingdom42.2%
3 Italy40.5%
4 Chile39.7%
5 United States39.1%
6 Lithuania37.7%
7 Czech Republic37.0%
8 Japan 35.3%
9 New Zealand34.0%
10 Austria30.8%
10 Germany30.8%
12 Australia30.2%
13 Israel29.3%
14 Slovenia26.0%
15 Switzerland24.0%
16 Sweden23.2%
17 Finland17.9%
18 Iceland16.6%
19 Denmark13.6%
20 Norway9.7%

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 = -3.264905 X +8.018
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.706
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.498

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -117825.503532 X +87492.825
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.612
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.375

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -7.706897 X +83.686
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.358
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.128

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.056203 X +1.604
Correlation coefficient (r)0.018
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.740617 X +13.300
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.017
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000