Statistical processing and overview of data
During the realization phase of the Distributive Justice project, an extensive, statistically measurable record of participants’ views on various aspects of the fair division of goods in society was collected. This was generated in those parts of the project which required the active inclusion of the participants – on the Internet, at the exhibitions, at the lectures and discussions and in the sociological surveys.
From the total number of participants in the project, 3497 persons filled out the on-line questionnaire, and 5793 visitors filled out the printed questionnaire. The game “Create the Society of Your Choice” was played by 8426 people and 6615 people played the game “Discover Your Distributive Profile”.

QUESTIONNAIRES
The questionnaires are an integral part of the project at the exhibitions. Visitors can fill them out either in printed form or online. The printed form contains added variables which narrowly identifies the socio-economic background of the respondent, in all the remaining segments they are compatible for comparison.
The results of the online questionnaire are generated automatically. Every newly filled-out questionnaire on the web currently affects the overview of results available on the statistics link, while the questionnaires filled out at exhibitions are processed following the closing of the exhibition, and are placed on the statistics web page and under the link of the country in which the exhibition was held.

From a total of 5793 printed and statistically processed questionnaires:
at the exhibition in Italy (BigTorino) 168 questionnaires were filled out, in Germany (Kassel, Documenta11) 2500 questionnaires, in Austria (Innsbruck, Plus Ultra) 270 questionnaires, in Croatia 330 questionnaires were filled out (in field research in Zagreb there were 200, at the exhibition in the PM Gallery there were 130 questionnaires), in Turkey (8.Istanbul Biennale) 800 questionnaires and in the USA (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York) 1725 questionnaires. From the results of the online questionnaires, the following data is interesting:

In response to the question What do you think in which way are economic classes distributed in your society? visitors selected lower middle class with 32% as the most represented, and 75% of the respondents in response to the question In your opinion, do you think that this type of distribution is fair? replied NO.

However, at the offered possibility of “fairly” distributing society by social classes themselves, the visitors change very little in relation to the “actual” situation which they judged to be unjust:

There is a slightly lesser, but even so relatively higher percentage of people “left” in the lower class (13%), while there is an absolutely identical percentage of people in the upper class (18%). The lower and upper middle class, to say the least, have only switched positions.

We presumed that people, when given the chance to do so, would “eliminate” the lower class, and in that way even out the “prosperity” of the nation, and what happened was that they divided society in the same way that they had evaluated as unjust.

The greatest departures occur in the responses of the Turkish visitors, who responded to those questions in the following manner:

In distributing society according to social classes by their own choice, the visitors gave the greatest preference to the lower class and only slightly increased the upper middle class.

In almost all the countries more than 60% of the visitors placed themselves in the upper middle class, with the exception of Croatia where 55% of the visitors considered themselves as belonging to the lower middle class.

An interesting fact also is that in the printed questionnaires 84% to 89% of the visitors consider the current distribution by socio-economic categories in their own country to be unjust, with the exception of Austria where 62% of the visitors consider this distribution to be unjust, while 38% of the visitors considered it to be just.

In response to the question What do you think best characterizes the social class to which you belong?, in most cases education was written down, with the greatest percentage in Austria 27.66%, and the least in Germany 16.9%. It is interesting to note that in the USA and Turkey money appears in second place behind education (USA: education 23.96% money 20.83%; Turkey: education 24.3%, money 21%), while in Croatia, Austria, Germany and Italy the second place is taken by house, flat while money is in last place.

In response to the question of social mobility in their country, respondents mainly responded positively, with the greatest in Austria with 88.4%, and the least in Turkey with altogether 62.5%.
We received an unexpected response to the question on what guarantees a crossing over to a higher economic status. Croats (with a 31% mixed population and 34.1% student population) and Turks (39%) gave precedence to criminal activity. Higher education was in second place in Turkey (30.5%), followed by business activities (15%) while in Croatia business activities were in second place (mixed population 19.8% and students with 23.4%) and higher education in third place (mixed population 16.4% and students with 15.3%).
Americans in 65.3% cases believe that higher education can guarantee a better economic status, with 44% Austrians and Germans thinking the same.

All respondents assessed the social politics of their country as being bad, with the exception of Austrians who are the only ones who placed it in the category of good (37.9%):

Sweden was unanimously selected as the country with the best social politics. The remaining Scandinavian countries followed. The exception here was Austria with 18.5% of the respondents (Austrians) assessing it as a country with the best social politics, while Sweden for them was in second place with 15.2%.

Americans (62.7%) are the most ready to pay higher taxes to benefit the most endangered social classes, followed by Turks (52%), while students in Croatia are among the lowest percentages with 34.7% (while the mixed population in Croatia is ready in 47.8% to set aside money for higher taxes) and Austrians (40.4%).

In the estimation of one’s own future living standard the most optimistic were Croats (53% feel that their standard will improve in the future), followed by Turks (48.5%), Americans (47.6%) and Italians (41.92%). Austrians (49%) and Germans (41.3%) however believe that their living standard in the future will not change. Americans (22.8%) believe that their living standards will get worse, as do 20.96% Italians; 16.8% Turks; 10.2% Germans; 10% Austrians and 7.8% Croats.