World Values Survey is a research project that focusses on changing values and beliefs and how social and political developments impact them over time. This survey involves people from over 60 countries and shows understanding of the importance of the select group of values with respect to each other: Family, Work, Friends, Leisure Time, Religion and Politics.
This plot graph will help the sociologists, economists, and political scientists to understand how the factors like GDP, diversity in population and culture influence the beliefs of people.
This visualization uses dot plot to show the relative importance of the values from the most important being on the circumference and tapering down in importance towards the center. The colors used are distinct which help to distinguish between the values represented in the plot. As the size of the dot decreases sequentially, it is easy to interpret the importance of values for the countries involved in the project.
The center dot plot shows how the world ranks the values comprehensively from most important to least important on average. We can certainly observe that about 75% of the countries rank family higher than other values while politics is universally the least important value. It also shows which countries are affected by the religion they follow.
The visualization makes it effortless and straightforward for a layman to perceive the graph and precisely shows the result of the survey. But as the graph represents data relatively, the size of the dots should not by directly connected to the percentages associated with the values and that is a disadvantage of this graph.
Source: https://knoema.com/infographics/hxpxvpg/world-values-family-work-friends-leisure-religion-and-politics