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European Values Study Longitudinal Data File 1981-2008 (EVS 1981-2008)
Gedeshi, Ilir; Zulehner, Paul M.; Rotman, DavidTitarenko, Larissa; Billiet, Jaak; Dobbelaere, Karel; Kerkhofs, Jan; Swyngedouw, Marc; Voyé, Liliane; Fotev, Georgy; Marinov, Mario; Raichev, Andrei; Stoychev, Kancho; Kielty, J.F.; Nevitte, Neil; Baloban, Josip; Roudometof, Victor; Rabusic, Ladislav; Rehak, Jan; Gundelach, Peter; Petersen, E.; Riis, Ole; Röhme, Nils; Saar, Andrus; Lotti, Leila; Pehkonen, Juhani; Puranen, Bi; Riffault, Hélène; Stoetzel, Jean; Tchernia, Jean-François; Pachulia, Merab; Jagodzinski, Wolfgang; Klingemann, Hans-Dieter; Köcher, Renate; Noelle-Neumann, Elisabeth; Anheier, Helmut; Barker, David; Harding, Stephen; Heald, Gordon; Timms, Noel; Voas, David; Gari, Aikaterini; Georgas, James; Mylonas, Kostas; Hankiss, Elemer; Manchin, Robert; Rosta, Gergely; Tomka, Miklós; Haraldsson, Olafur; Jónsson, Fridrik H.; Olafsson, Stefan; Breen, Michael; Fahey, Tony; Fogarty, Michael; Kennedy, Kieran; Sinnott, Richard; Whelan, Chris; Abbruzzese, Salvatore; Calvaruso, Claudio; Gubert, Renzo; Rovati, Giancarlo; Zepa, Brigita; Alisauskiene, Rasa; Juknevicius, Stanislovas; Ziliukaite, Ruta; Estgen, Pol; Hausman, Pierre; Legrand, Michel; Petkovska, Antoanela; Abela, Anthony M.; Cachia-Caruana, Richard; Inganuez, Fr. Joe; Troisi, Joseph; Petruti, Doru; Besic, Milos; Arts, Wil A.; de Moor, Ruud; European Values Study; Hagenaars, Jacques A.P.; Halman, Loek; Luijkx, Ruud; Hayes, Bernadette C.; Smith, Alan; Listhaug, Ola; Jasinska-Kania, Aleksandra; Konieczna, Joanna; Marody, Mira; Cabral, Manuel Villaverde; Franca, Luis de; Ramos, Alice; Vala, Jorge; Pop, Lucien; Voicu, Malina; Zamfir, Catalin; Bashkirova, Elena; Gredelj, Stjepan; Kusá, Zuzana; Malnar, Brina; Tos, Niko; Elzo, Javier; Orizo, Francisco Andrés; Silvestre Cabrera, María; Bush, Karin; Lundasen, Susanne; Pettersson, Thorleif; Joye, Dominique; Esmer, Yilmaz; Balakireva, Olga; Inglehart, Ronald; Rosenberg, Florence; Sullivan, Edward
GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA4804 Data file Version 3.1.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13486
Abstract: This study is no longer up to date. Please, use the new study ZA7503: EVS Trend File 1981-2017.
The latest data file is also recommended as an improved update for analyses due to the improvements and data revisions.
Moral, religious, societal, political, work, and family values of Europeans. Compilation of the data sets from 1981, 1990, 1999, and 2008.
The variable overview allows for comparisons of trend variables of the four EVS waves 1981, 1990, 1999, and 2008. In addition, comparisons of original question texts across the waves 1999 and 2008 are supported.
Topics: 1. Perceptio ... more
Topics: SOCIETY AND CULTURE | Religion and values
Methodology
Date(s) of Data Collection: 01.03.1981 - 15.03.2010
Date(s) of Data Collection: 01.03.1981 - 31.05.1981, Belgium (1st wave) | 1982, Canada (1st wave) | 01.03.1981 - 31.05.1981, Denmark (1st wave) | 01.03.1981 - 31.05.1981, France (1st wave) | 01.03.1981 - 31.05.1981, Germany (1st wave) | 01.03.1981 - 31.05.1981, Great Britain (1st wave) | 1984, Iceland (1st wave) | 01.03.1981 - 31.05.1981, Italy (1st wave) | 11.1983 - 02.1984, ... more
Geographic coverage: Albania (AL) | Armenia (AM) | Austria (AT) | Belarus (BY) | Bosnia and Herzegovina (BA) | Bulgaria (BG) | Canada (CA) | Cyprus (CY) | Croatia (HR) | Czech Republic (CZ) | Denmark (DK) | Estonia (EE) | Finland (FI) | France (FR) | Georgia (GE) | Germany (DE) | Great Britain (GB-GBN) | Greece (GR) | Hungary (HU) | Iceland (IS) | Ireland (IE) | Italy ... more
Universe: EVS 2008: Persons 18 years or older who are resident within private households, regardless of nationality and citizenship or language. In Armenia persons 15 years or older and in Finland persons from 18 to 74 years were interviewed.
EVS 1999: Adult population of the country 18 years and older (no upper age limit)
EVS 1990: Adult population of the c ... more
Number of Units: 164997
Sampling Procedure: EVS 2008: Representative multi-stage or stratified random sample of the
adult population of the country 18 years old and older (except Armenia
15+ and Finland 18 to 74 years). They were supposed to have sufficient
command of one of the respective national language(s) to answer the
questionnaire. The net sample size (in the sense of completed
interv ... more
Mode of Data Collection: EVS 2008: Face-to-face interviews with standardized questionnaire. In all countries, fieldwork was conducted on the basis of detailed and uniform instructions prepared by the EVS advisory groups. The EVS questionnaires were administered as face-to-face interviews in the appropriate national language(s). As far as the data capture is concerned, CAPI ... more
Data Collector: Albania: Strategic Puls Research, Tirana;
Armenia: Marketing Communications, Yerevan;
Austria: GfK Austria GmbH, Vienna;
Belarus: Belarus State University, Center for Sociological and Political Research, Minsk; The Centre of Political and Sociological Researches of Belarus
State University;
Belgium: TNS-Dimarso, Brussels; Nationaal instituut voor ... more
Analysis System(s): SPSS, Stata
Number of Variables: 1399
Notes: The EVS LdF is offered in two different versions:
• The EVS Longitudinal Data File 1981-2008, ZA4804 contains de facto anonymised data, i.e. specific information of the EVS 2008 surveys is aggregated into coarse categories providing less detailed information on respondent’s residence and occupation. It is provided for direct download through the G ... more
Bibliographic information
Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Gedeshi, Ilir - Center for Economic and Social Studies, Albania | 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 | Kerkh ... more
Publication year: 2020
DOI: 10.4232/1.13486 | 10.4232/1.12253 | 10.4232/1.11005 | 10.4232/1.4804
Study number: ZA4804
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive
Research data center: FDZ Int. Umfrageprogramm bei GESIS
External links: http://www.europeanvaluesstudy.eu/
Versions
Current Version: 3.1.0, 2020-04-08, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13486
Version history: ... more
Version changes: ... more
Errata in current version: ... more
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
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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 Trend Files | 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.

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

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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- ZA4804_EVS-WVS_ParticipatingCountries.pdf List of participating countries (EVS and WVS) (Table) 380.53 KB
- ZA4804_EVS-WVS_ParticipatingCountries.xls List of participating countries (EVS and WVS) (Table) 325 KB
- ZA4804_EVS_VariableCorrespondence.pdf variable correspondence list (EVS only) (Table) 752.31 KB
- ZA4804_weights.pdf (Remarks) 895.21 KB
- ZA4804_EVS_VariableCorrespondence.xlsx variable correspondence list (EVS only) (Table) 89.51 KB
- ZA4804_EVS_ParticipatingCountries.pdf (Table) 118.47 KB
- ZA4804_IVS_UserInformation.zip Information on the merged Integrated Values Survey 1981-2014 based on EVS and WVS data (Other Document) 876.22 KB
- ZA4804_EVS_1981-2008_Overview.xlsx Method Overview - National Surveys (Table) 137.68 KB
- ZA4804_Duplicate_Cases.xlsx (Table) 142.56 KB
- ZA4804_readme_v3-1-0.pdf changes in version 3.1.0 (Other Document) 86.11 KB
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EVS (2020). European Values Study Longitudinal Data File 1981-2008 (EVS 1981-2008). GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA4804 Data file Version 3.1.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13486.
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