Some research showed that there is a positive corroloation between participation and socialeconomic status<ref>Rothman, J. (1974). Planning and organizing for social change: Action principles from social science research. Columbia University Press New York.</ref>. Others show small corroloation between status and SE<ref>Salisbury, R. H. (1975). Research on political participation. American Journal of Political Science, 323–341.</ref>. Lindell found that the SE has modrate influance on participation. They found that in the top of SE people tended to participate less<ref>Karjalainen, M., & Rapeli, L. (2014). Who will not deliberate? Attrition in a multi-stage citizen deliberation experiment . Quality & Quantity</ref><ref>Lindell, M. (2014). What Drives the Polarization and Moderation of Opinions? Evidence from a Finnish Citizen Experiment on Immigration. In ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops 2014, workshop “Systematising Comparison of Democratic Innovations: Advanced Explanations of the Emergence, Sustenance and Failure of Participatory Institutions”.</ref>.