Abstract

The World Values Survey (www.worldvaluessurvey.org) is a global network of social scientists studying changing values and their impact on social and political life, led by an international team of scholars, with the WVS association and secretariat headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

The survey, which started in 1981, seeks to use the most rigorous, high-quality research designs in each country. The WVS consists of nationally representative surveys conducted in almost 100 countries which contain almost 90 percent of the world’s population, using a common questionnaire. The WVS is the largest non-commercial, cross-national, time series investigation of human beliefs and values ever executed, currently including interviews with almost 400,000 respondents. Moreover the WVS is the only academic study covering the full range of global variations, from very poor to very rich countries, in all of the world’s major cultural zones.

The WVS seeks to help scientists and policy makers understand changes in the beliefs, values and motivations of people throughout the world. Thousands of political scientists, sociologists, social psychologists, anthropologists and economists have used these data to analyze such topics as economic development, democratization, religion, gender equality, social capital, and subjective well-being. These data have also been widely used by government officials, journalists and students, and groups at the World Bank have analyzed the linkages between cultural factors and economic development.

Geographic coverage

National

Analysis unit

Household Individual

Universe

Residents of Estonia age 18 and older.

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

Sample size: 1533.

We used multi-stage sampling: Stratum Name Definition 1 Region Geographical regions of state accordingly to NUTS 3 2 County Counties 3 UR/Capital Urban/Rural areas, including capital Tallinn 4 Nationality (e.g. ethnicity). Ethnicity of respondent (Estonians/Non-Estonians) What was the final number of clusters or sampling points? 270

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Sampling error estimates

Estimated error: 2.6

Population born in estonia by place of birth, age and ethnic nationality.

Population living in estonia at the time of last two population censuses by sex, age group, ethnic nationality and county of residence during current and 2000 population census, 31 december 2011.

As of 2023, there were 89 prisoners from Estonia in Finnish prisons, followed by 56 inmates from Romania. The Finnish prison system counted a total of 3,166 inmates that year, including sentenced prisoners, remand prisoners, and fine default prisoners.

Attitudes of 15–74-year-olds with relationship experience about the spread of intimate partner abuse in estonian society by sex and place of residence/age/education/ethnic nationality, 2008/2009.