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EVS Trend File 1981-2017
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; Baloban, Stjepan; 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; Wallman-Lundåsen, Susanne; Pettersson, Thorleif; Joye, Dominique; Esmer, Yilmaz; Balakireva, Olga; Inglehart, Ronald; Rosenberg, Florence; Sullivan, Edward; Pachulia, Merab; Poghosyan, Gevorg; Kritzinger, Sylvia; Kolenović-Đapo, Jadranka; Baloban, Josip; Frederiksen, Morten; Saar, Erki; Ketola, Kimmo; Wolf, Christof; Pachulia, Merab; Bréchon, Pierre; Jónsdóttir, Guðbjörg A.; Komar, Olivera; Reeskens, Tim; Jenssen, Anders T.; Soboleva, Natalia; Voicu, Bogdan; Strapcová, Katarina; Bešić, Miloš; Uhan, Samo; Ernst Stähli, Michèle; Mieriņa, Inta
GESIS, Cologne. ZA7503 Data file Version 3.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14021
Abstract: The European Values Study is a large-scale, cross-national and longitudinal survey research program on how Europeans think about family, work, religion, politics, and society. Repeated every nine years in an increasing number of countries, the survey provides insights into the ideas, beliefs, preferences, attitudes, values, and opinions of citizens all over Europe.
The EVS Trend File 1981-2017 is constructed from the five EVS waves and covers almost 40 years. In altogether 160 surveys, more than 224.000 respondents from 48 countries/regions were interviewed. It is based on the updated data of ... more
Content: 1. Perceptions of life: importance of family, friends and acquaintances, leisure time, politics, work, and religion; feeling of happiness; self-assessment of state of health; feelings: ever felt excited or interested, restless, proud because of compliments, very lonely or remote from other people, pleased about having accomplishes something, bored, ... more
Topics: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT | Cultural and national identity | Religion and values | Political behaviour and attitudes | Family life and marriage | Gender and gender roles | Environment and conservation
Methodology
Date(s) of Data Collection: 01.03.1981 - 01.10.2021
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) | Azerbaijan (AZ) | Austria (AT) | Belarus (BY) | Bosnia and Herzegovina (BA) | Canada (CA) | Bulgaria (BG) | 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) | Ire ... more
Universe: EVS 2017: The target population is defined as: individuals aged 18 or older (with no upper age limit) that have address of residence (not residential) in [country] within private households at the date of beginning of fieldwork (or in the date of the first visit to the household, in case of random-route selection).
EVS 2008: Persons 18 years or ol ... more
Number of Units: 224434
Sampling Procedure: • Probability: Simple random
• Probability: Multistage;
Representative single stage or multi-stage sampling of the adult population of the country 18 years old and older was used for the EVS 2017. Sample size was set as effective sample size: 1200 for countries with population over 2 million, 1000 for countries with population less than 2 milli ... more
Analysis Unit: Individual
Mode of Data Collection: • Face-to-face interview: Computer-assisted (CAPI/CAMI)
• Telephone interview: Computer-assisted (CATI)
• Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)
• Face-to-face interview: Paper-and-pencil (PAPI)
• Self-administered questionnaire: Paper;
Mode of collection: mixed mode
Face-to-face interview: CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Int ... 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
Kind of Data: Numeric
Number of Variables: 635
Bibliographic information
Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Gedeshi, Ilir - Center for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), 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 ... more
Publication year: 2022
DOI: 10.4232/1.14021 | 10.4232/1.13736 | 10.4232/1.13093
Study number: ZA7503
Publisher: GESIS
Research data center: FDZ Int. Umfrageprogramm bei GESIS
External links: European Values Study
Versions
Current Version: 3.0.0, 2022-12-14, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14021
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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- ZA7503_cdb.pdf (Variable Report) 2.42 MB
- ZA7503_cdb_erratum_E181A.xlsx Erratum for variable E181A (Codebook) 97.71 KB
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- ZA7503_EVS_WVS_ParticipatingCountries.xlsx (Table) 148.53 KB
- ZA7503_IVS_ConditionsOfUse.pdf (Other Document) 237.46 KB
- ZA7503_EVS_ParticipatingCountries.pdf (Other Document) 123.82 KB
- ZA7503_Common_EVS_WVS_Dictionary_IVS.xlsx (Table) 333.4 KB
- ZA7503_Common_EVS_WVS_Dictionary_EVS-Trend.xlsx (Table) 632.14 KB
- ZA7503_Method_Information.xlsx Method Overview - National Surveys (Method Report) 90.46 KB
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EVS (2022). EVS Trend File 1981-2017. GESIS, Cologne. ZA7503 Data file Version 3.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14021.
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