Poland is currently seen as substantially more egalitarian than in the 1990s. For the first time since research on this began, the most frequently chosen model to describe social structure is the one with the most middle levels. Over the last six years the percentage of people who see Polish society this way has doubled (from 14% to 28%). In the 1990s only a relatively small number of those surveyed (8-10%) had seen society in this way.