Better off than the home you grew up in?
One question in the reading is about the home you started from. After your result, it draws a starting line beside where you stand now.
What is asked
On the first screen, beside your country, as taps. Nothing about your parents' jobs or income is asked.
When you were a kid, what did your home have?
Tap everything that was true.
- My own room
- A car
- A home we owned
- Trips away
- After-school classes
- None of these
From taps to a starting line
The count of things your home had picks a starting band, and each band is read as a fifth of your country's income distribution, at its middle.
| Things your home had | Starting band | Read as |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | The household often had less than it needed | the 10th percentile |
| 1 to 2 | The household got by, with little spare | the 30th percentile |
| 3 to 4 | The household was around the middle | the 50th percentile |
| 5 | The household was comfortable | the 70th percentile |
That reading is a definition of the answer scale, not an estimate of your family's income: the five bands are the five fifths of the measured national distribution, and a band stands at its middle.
What the card shows
Behind a tap under your result, never in the reveal itself.
Where the line started
- The first mark: where households of the background you chose typically stood in your country, in the decade you were born.
- The second mark: where your income places you today, on the same country's distribution.
The two ranks are set side by side and never subtracted. One word changes between readers, and it describes position: above, level or below.
Two ranks, in two different decades and two different populations. They are set side by side, never subtracted.
What it cannot say
- It is not your parents' income. It is where households of the background you chose usually stood, a published figure for a cohort.
- No measured data on how strongly position passes from one generation to the next has been ingested, so the same starting line is used for every birth decade.
- The two marks sit in different decades and different populations. Setting them side by side describes two positions; it does not say how far anyone travelled.
- Where the data cannot reach back to your starting decade, the card is not drawn rather than estimated.