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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 D
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark58.7%
1 Norway58.7%
3 Iceland47.6%
4 Australia40.7%
5 Switzerland39.8%
6 Sweden37.9%
7 Finland35.6%
8 New Zealand33.3%
9 Belgium32.1%
10 United States26.0%
11 Austria22.6%
12 United Kingdom20.9%
13 Japan 20.0%
14 Germany18.6%
15 Spain17.0%
16 Republic of Korea15.1%
17 Czech Republic13.5%
18 Poland12.6%
19 Slovenia12.3%
20 France12.1%
21 Chile11.7%
21 Italy11.7%
23 Estonia9.8%
24 Israel9.3%
25 Turkiye8.9%
26 Slovakia7.4%
27 Portugal6.5%
28 Lithuania5.9%
29 Hungary3.7%
30 Latvia2.4%

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 = 3.012576 X +6.064
Correlation coefficient (r)0.717
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.514

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 117116.490342 X +17486.867
Correlation coefficient (r)0.854
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.729

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 9.702895 X +78.390
Correlation coefficient (r)0.564
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.318

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.121708 X +1.597
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.059
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -3.051648 X +14.164
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.088
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008