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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:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Norway54.2%
2 Denmark53.2%
3 Iceland50.7%
4 Finland41.3%
5 Sweden37.8%
6 Australia34.8%
7 Switzerland34.5%
8 Israel29.3%
9 New Zealand24.5%
10 Austria23.9%
11 Japan 22.8%
12 Germany21.2%
13 Slovenia20.9%
14 United Kingdom18.2%
15 United States17.7%
16 Chile17.4%
17 Czech Republic16.7%
18 France14.1%
19 Italy11.6%
20 Lithuania3.9%

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 = 2.637004 X +6.300
Correlation coefficient (r)0.762
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.581

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 105593.824642 X +22651.184
Correlation coefficient (r)0.733
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.537

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 9.172665 X +78.823
Correlation coefficient (r)0.569
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.324

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.168057 X +1.575
Correlation coefficient (r)0.072
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -7.281727 X +15.073
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.225
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.051