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EVS - European Values Study 1999 - Integrated Dataset

GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA3811 Data file Version 3.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.10789
Abstract: The online overview offers comprehensive metadata on the EVS datasets and variables. The variable overview of the four EVS waves 1981, 1990, 1999/2000, and 2008 allows for identifying country specific deviations in the question wording within and across the EVS waves. This overview can be found at: Online Variable Overview. Moral, religious, societal, political, work, and family values of Europeans. Topics: The question program is divided in three parts: besides a common question program for all countries there is a voluntary supplement program and further country-specific questions. 1 ... more

Methodology

Date(s) of Data Collection: 01.02.1999 - 01.10.2001
Date(s) of Data Collection: 23.03.1999 - 10.04.1999, France | 01.10.1999 - 30.11.1999, Great Britain | 01.10.1999 - 31.12.1999, Germany | 01.08.1999 - 31.10.1999, Austria | 01.03.1999 - 31.05.1999, Italy | 01.03.1999 - 30.04.1999, Spain | 01.10.1999 - 31.12.1999, Portugal | 01.03.1999 - 31.08.1999, Netherlands | 01.03.1999 - 30.06.1999, Belgium | 01.04.1999 - 30.11.1999, Denm ... more
Geographic coverage: Austria (AT) | Belarus (BY) | Belgium (BE) | Bulgaria (BG) | Croatia (HR) | Czech Republic (CZ) | Denmark (DK) | Estonia (EE) | Finland (FI) | France (FR) | Germany (DE) | Great Britain (GB-GBN) | Greece (GR) | Hungary (HU) | Iceland (IS) | Ireland (IE) | Italy (IT) | Latvia (LV) | Lithuania (LT) | Luxembourg (LU) | Malta (MT) | Netherlands (NL) | ... more
Universe: The adult population of the country 18 years old and older.
Number of Units: 41125
Sampling Procedure: Representative multi-stage random sample Representative multi-stage random sample of the adult population of the country 18 years old and older. They were supposed to have sufficient command of one of the respective national language(s) to answer the questionnaire. With the exception of Greece, in all countries surveys were carried out by experien ... more
Mode of Data Collection: Face-to-face interviews with standardized questionnaire. In Iceland about a quarter of the respondents were interviewed by telephone. These were respondents in remote areas of the country.
Data Collector: Fessel - GfK Austria; Nationaal instituut voor dataverzameling/Dimarso, Belgium; Institute of Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; The Centre of Political and Sociological Researches of Belarus State University; SC&C Ltd., Statistical Consultations and Computing, Czech Republic; INFAS, Bonn, Germany; SFI, The Danish national institut ... more
Analysis System(s): SPSS, Stata
Number of Variables: 513
Notes: In Iceland about a quarter of the respondents were interviewed by telephone. These were respondents in remote areas of the country. The Greek data don’t reflect the composition of the entire Greek population, measured in terms of the distribution of the demographic variables. The slightly different sampling procedures in each country are describe ... more

Bibliographic information

Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Zulehner, Paul M. - University of Vienna, Austria | Rotman, David - Belarus State University, Belarus | Titarenko, Larissa - Belarus State University, Belarus | Billiet, Jaak - Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium | Dobbelaere, Karel - Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium | Bawin, Bernadette - University of Liège, Belgium | Kerkhofs, Jan - Cath ... more
Publication year: 2011
DOI: 10.4232/1.10789 | 10.4232/1.3811 | 10.4232/1.11307
Study number: ZA3811
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive

Versions

Current Version: 3.0.0, 2011-11-20, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.10789
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Reference publications

Publications: The EVS Bibliography lists all kinds of publications using EVS data, based on national and cross-national analysis. The bibliography is an easy way to find relevant publications in the field of value studies. Moreover, some enhanced publications with information on the datasets, variables, and syntax codes of the concepts used are available. The EV ... more
Study group:
European Values Study (EVS) | show all hits of the group
The European Values Study is a large-scale, cross-national and longitudinal survey research program conducted under the responsibility of the European Values Study Foundation since 1981. The cross-sectional surveys, repeated in a 9-year cycle, cover a broad range of topics on central areas of life such as work and leisure time, family and sexuality ... more

EVS 1999 | show all hits of the group
The European Values Study is a transnational empirical long-term study conducted under the responsibility of the European Values Study Foundation. The individual surveys cover a wide range of topics that span central areas of life such as work and leisure, family and sexuality, religion, politics and ethics.

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EVS (2011). EVS - European Values Study 1999 - Integrated Dataset. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA3811 Data file Version 3.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.10789.

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