Review of World Values Survey Association (WVSA) (1981): World Values Survey

Description

The World Values Survey (WVS) is an international research program studying social, political, economic, religious and cultural values of people around the world and contributes to the monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals using a representative comparative social study - conducted globally every five years - as its main research instrument. The WVS grew out of the European Values Study and was started in 1981 by Professor Ronald Inglehart from the University of Michigan and his team. The WVS currently covers the time period from 1981 to 2022 in more than 120 world societies via 7 separate survey waves. Wave 8 of the survey is being planned which will cover the time frame from 2024-2026. The goal of the Survey is to “assess which impact values stability or change over time has on the social, political and economic development of countries and societies”.
The following countries covered by Discuss Data are included in the WVS (in alphabetical order):
Armenia in 1997, 2011, 2021
Belarus in 1990, 1996, 2011
Estonia in 1996, 2011
Georgia in 1996, 2009, 2014
Kazakhstan in 2011, 2018
Kyrgyzstan in 2003, 2011, 2020
Latvia in 1996
Lithuania in 1997
Moldova in 1996, 2002, 2006
Russia in 1990, 1995, 2011, 2017
Tajikistan in 2020
Ukraine in 1996, 2006, 2011, 2020
Uzbekistan in 2011, 2022
This data review includes a link to the official World Values Survey website from which both the dataset, as well as all information listed here, is available. In the section "Data and Documentation / Data Download" the questionnaire and a documentation are available for direct download. The documentation includes the codebook and descriptive statistics of the results for all countries. The documentation for the 7th wave of the survey has a total length of 1380 pages. The "statistical data files" containing the original raw data in different formats (csv, R, SAS, SPSS and STATA) are available for download immediately after submission of the online registration form.

Countries

Armenia Belarus Estonia Georgia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Latvia Lithuania Moldova Other Russia Tajikistan Ukraine Uzbekistan

Keywords

Sociology Political Science Demography Political Trust International Relations Public Health Climate Change Social Tolerance Economics Anthropology Social Psychology

Language of data

Armenian English Estonian Georgian Kazakh Kyrgyz Latvian Lithuanian Moldovian Russian Tajik Ukrainian Uzbek

Methods of data collection

Public Opinion Poll