4.2.4.2 Distribution of poverty, wealth and income Quiz: AQA Sociology, Unit 2

The 20 questions

1. In sociological terms, how is wealth defined differently from income?

   • Weekly benefit payments
   • Regular monthly wages
   • Total annual earnings
   • Accumulated assets owned

2. What does a Gini coefficient score of 1 represent?

   • Zero poverty
   • Perfect equality
   • Average national income
   • Maximum inequality

3. Into what percentage groups does a quintile divide a population ranked by income?

   • 10 per cent groups
   • 25 per cent groups
   • 50 per cent groups
   • 20 per cent groups

4. What does a Lorenz curve illustrate about a population's income or wealth?

   • Total national debt
   • Social mobility speed
   • Rate of inflation
   • Degree of inequality

5. According to UK statistics, which group has a particularly high rate of relative poverty?

   • Disabled households
   • Married couples
   • Full-time graduates
   • Retired homeowners

6. What factor within the labour market is most directly linked to income inequality?

   • Eye colour
   • Skill level differences
   • Geographical size
   • Marital status

7. A household's income is 12,000, 18,000, 24,000, 30,000 and 36,000 pounds in five households. What is the median income in pounds?

   • 20,000 pounds
   • 24,000 pounds
   • 30,000 pounds
   • 18,000 pounds

8. The incomes of five households are 10,000, 20,000, 30,000, 40,000 and 100,000 pounds. What is the mean income in pounds?

   • 100,000 pounds
   • 20,000 pounds
   • 40,000 pounds
   • 30,000 pounds

9. Why is mean income usually higher than median income in the UK?

   • High unemployment
   • Extreme high incomes
   • Equal wealth distribution
   • High tax rates

10. According to official statistics, which ethnic groups experience the highest relative poverty rates in the UK?

    • Indian and Chinese
    • Black Caribbean
    • White British
    • Bangladeshi and Pakistani

11. How is wealth distributed in the UK compared to income?

    • More unequally
    • Perfectly equally
    • More equally
    • Identically distributed

12. What factor has helped reduce pensioner poverty rates in the UK in recent decades?

    • Increased child benefit
    • Lower life expectancy
    • Improved pension provision
    • Higher youth employment

13. Which statistical measure is commonly used to show income inequality before and after taxes and benefits?

    • Rowntree scale
    • Birth rate
    • Gini coefficient
    • Dependency ratio

14. Which type of survey best tracks household poverty over a prolonged period of time?

    • Snapshot questionnaire
    • Longitudinal panel survey
    • Cross-sectional survey
    • Pilot study

15. What does it indicate when the top ten per cent hold most national wealth?

    • High wealth concentration
    • Meritocratic distribution
    • Perfect wealth redistribution
    • Absolute equality

16. What factor most severely hinders a household's ability to accumulate wealth over time?

    • Persistently low income
    • Capital gains
    • High savings interest
    • Inherited property

17. According to sociologists, what type of factors primarily cause UK income inequality, alongside individual effort?

    • Random luck
    • Structural factors
    • Genetic traits
    • Biological determinism

18. Dividing a population into five equal income groups produces what statistical units?

    • Quartiles
    • Deciles
    • Percentiles
    • Quintiles

19. If the top fifth receives 45% of total income and the bottom fifth receives 5%, what ratio is shown?

    • Three times higher
    • Five times higher
    • Nine times higher
    • Twenty times higher

20. Into how many equal groups does a population decile divide income data?

    • One hundred
    • Four
    • Five
    • Ten

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