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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 A
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Lithuania41.7%
2 Italy30.8%
3 Slovenia28.6%
4 United States25.1%
5 Chile20.9%
6 United Kingdom18.3%
7 Israel16.6%
8 France16.2%
9 Germany14.7%
10 Czech Republic12.8%
11 Austria11.8%
12 New Zealand10.6%
13 Japan 9.9%
14 Finland6.9%
15 Switzerland5.1%
16 Sweden4.8%
17 Australia4.6%
18 Iceland4.0%
19 Norway2.8%
20 Denmark1.6%

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 = -3.022221 X +7.459
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.658
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.433

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -126309.928552 X +69796.849
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.661
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.437

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -14.931771 X +83.489
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.699
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.489

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.106484 X +1.637
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.034
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 15.109175 X +10.901
Correlation coefficient (r)0.352
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.124