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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 E
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Norway6.2%
2 Republic of Korea5.0%
3 Iceland4.5%
4 Germany4.2%
5 Japan 4.0%
5 Portugal4.0%
7 Latvia3.7%
7 Poland3.7%
7 Switzerland3.7%
10 Denmark3.5%
10 Spain3.5%
10 United Kingdom3.5%
13 Turkiye3.2%
14 Belgium3.0%
15 Chile2.9%
15 United States2.9%
17 Slovenia2.7%
18 Austria2.5%
19 Australia2.1%
19 Czech Republic2.1%
19 Italy2.1%
22 Sweden1.9%
23 Lithuania1.7%
23 New Zealand1.7%
25 France1.6%
26 Estonia1.5%
27 Hungary1.4%
27 Slovakia1.4%
29 Finland1.2%
30 Israel1.1%

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

No data for 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -4.442492 X +6.847
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.084
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 487537.879066 X +28898.458
Correlation coefficient (r)0.281
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.079

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 63.186914 X +78.678
Correlation coefficient (r)0.290
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -10.099982 X +1.862
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.387
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.150

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 30.369417 X +12.624
Correlation coefficient (r)0.069
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005