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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. Perceptions of life: importance of work, family, friends and acquaintances, leisure time, politics and religion (in Sweden: service to others); frequency of political discussions with friends; happiness; self-assessment of own health; feelings of: excitement or interest, restlessness, pride because of compliments, loneliness, joy about completing a thing, boredom, feeling good, depressed or unhappy, managing everything, sadness because of criticism; feelings of the respondent at home: relaxation, anxiety, happiness, aggression or safety.
Leisure: way of spending leisure time and definition of leisure; partners for leisure time: alone, with family, friends, at busy places, colleagues, people at churches or at sport and culture; frequency of political discussions with friends and political opinion leadership; memberships and unpaid work (volunteering) in: social welfare services, religious or church organisations, education, or cultural activities, trade unions, political parties, local political actions, human rights, environmental or peace movement, professional associations, youth work, sports clubs, women´s groups, voluntary associations concerned with health consumption or other groups; motives for volunteering; aversion to people with other setting; feelings of loneliness.
Work: reasons for people to live in need; importance of selected aspects of occupational work; employment status; general work satisfaction; freedom of decision-making in the job; importance of work (work ethics, scale); important aspects of leisure time; attitude towards following instructions at work without criticism (obedience work); jobs scarce: give priority to nationals over foreigners as well as men over women in jobs, able bodied people over handicapped people and forced retirement for the elderly; satisfaction with the financial situation of the household and expected situation in a year.
Work Environment: work orientation and aspects of job satisfaction; importance of selected characteristics of professional work: good pay, little pressure, job security, respectable activity, flexible working hours, ability to show initiative, a lot of vacation, meeting objectives, responsibility, interesting work, meeting one´s own skills, nice colleagues, good career opportunities, serving society, contact with people, good physical conditions of work and weekend leisure, looking forward to work after the weekend, pride of one´s work, family friendly, have a say, people treated equally; perceived exploitation in the workplace; general job satisfaction (scale); satisfaction with job security; use of paid days off: look for additional salaried work, training, meeting with friends and family, additional working against boredom, voluntary work, hobbies, running one´s own business, relaxation.
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.
EVS 2008: Es handelt sich um eine repräsentative mehrstufige Zufallsstichprobe der erwachsenen Bevölkerung der teilnehmenden Länder. Die Teilnehmer waren zum Zeitpunkt der Befragung 18 Jahre oder älter. Ausnahmen sind Armenien, befragt wurden Personen ab 15 Jahren und älter, sowie Finnland wo Personen zwischen 18 und 74 Jahren befragt wurden. Voraussetzung für die Befragung war die ausreichende Kenntnis der jeweiligen nationalen Sprache(n) um den Fragebogen beantworten zu können. Die realisierte Samplegröße (ausgefüllte Fragebogen) liegt bei etwa 1500 Befragten. Ausnahmen bilden Nord-Zypern und Nordirland (jeweils 500), Island (808), Zypern (1000), Irland (1013), Norwegen (1090), Finnland (1134), Schweden (1187), Schweiz (1272), Frankreich (Zufallsstichprobe: 1501 plus zwei weitere Samples: 1570) und Deutschland (disproportionales Sample Osten: 1004, Westen: 1071). Länderspezifische Informationen entnehmen Sie bitte der Publikation: EVS, GESIS (2010): EVS 2008 Method Report. GESIS-Technical Reports 2010/17, abgerufen von EVS webpage.
EVS 1999: Es handelt sich um eine repräsentative mehrstufige Zufallsstichprobe der erwachsenen Bevölkerung der teilnehmenden Länder. Die Teilnehmer waren zum Zeitpunkt der Befragung 18 Jahre oder älter. Voraussetzung für die Befragung war die ausreichende Kenntnis der jeweiligen nationalen Sprache(n) um den Fragebogen beantworten zu können. In allen Ländern außer Griechenland wurde die Befragung von professionellen Befragungsorganisationen durchgeführt. Die leicht unterschiedlichen Vorgehensweisen beim Sampling werden im Sourcebook von Loek Halman beschrieben: The European Values Study: A Third Wave. Source book of the 1999/2000 European Values Study Surveys. Tilburg: EVS, WORC, Tilburg University 2001. Retrieved from EVS website/Surveys/Survey 1999: EVS webpage.
EVS 1990: Es handelt sich um eine repräsentative mehrstufige Zufallsstichprobe der erwachsenen Bevölkerung der teilnehmenden Länder. Die Teilnehmer waren zum Zeitpunkt der Befragung 18 Jahre oder älter.
EVS 1981: Es handelt sich um eine repräsentative mehrstufige Zufallsstichprobe der erwachsenen Bevölkerung der teilnehmenden Länder. Die Teilnehmer waren zum Zeitpunkt der Befragung 18 Jahre oder älter. Die vorgesehene Interviewzahl belief sich auf 1000, sowie ein zusätzliches booster quota sample von 200 jungen Erwachsenen zwischen 18 und 24.
This study is no longer up to date. Please, use the new study ZA7504: EVS Trend File 1981-2017 – Sensitive Dataset . 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. Perceptions of life: importance of work, family, friends and acquaintances, leisure time, politics and religion (in Sweden: service to others); frequency of political discussions with friends; happiness; self-assessment of own health; feelings of: excitement or interest, restlessness, pride because of compliments, loneliness, joy about completing a thing, boredom, feeling good, depressed or unhappy, managing everything, sadness because of criticism; feelings of the respondent at home: relaxation, anxiety, happiness, aggression or safety.
Leisure: way of spending leisure time and definition of leisure; partners for leisure time: alone, with family, friends, at busy places, colleagues, people at churches or at sport and culture; frequency of political discussions with friends and political opinion leadership; memberships and unpaid work (volunteering) in: social welfare services, religious or church organisations, education, or cultural activities, trade unions, political parties, local political actions, human rights, environmental or peace movement, professional associations, youth work, sports clubs, women´s groups, voluntary associations concerned with health consumption or other groups; motives for volunteering; aversion to people with other setting; feelings of loneliness.
Work: reasons for people to live in need; importance of selected aspects of occupational work; employment status; general work satisfaction; freedom of decision-making in the job; importance of work (work ethics, scale); important aspects of leisure time; attitude towards following instructions at work without criticism (obedience work); jobs scarce: give priority to nationals over foreigners as well as men over women in jobs, able bodied people over handicapped people and forced retirement for the elderly; satisfaction with the financial situation of the household and expected situation in a year.
Work Environment: work orientation and aspects of job satisfaction; importance of selected characteristics of professional work: good pay, little pressure, job security, respectable activity, flexible working hours, ability to show initiative, a lot of vacation, meeting objectives, responsibility, interesting work, meeting one´s own skills, nice colleagues, good career opportunities, serving society, contact with people, good physical conditions of work and weekend leisure, looking forward to work after the weekend, pride of one´s work, family friendly, have a say, people treated equally; perceived exploitation in the workplace; general job satisfaction (scale); satisfaction with job security; use of paid days off: look for additional salaried work, training, meeting with friends and family, additional working against boredom, voluntary work, hobbies, running one´s own business, relaxation.
This survey is a not up-to-date version and available only for replication purposes (see ´Further Remarks´).
Moral, religious, societal, political, work, and family values of citizens in EVS/WVS participating countries. Compilation of the data sets from 1981-1984, 1989-1993, 1994-1999, and 1999-2004.
Detailed survey information can be found at the EVS webpage . Furthermore a detailed variable overview is offered at GESIS Online Variable Overview .
For WVS an Online Data Analysis System is available.
Moral, religious, societal, political, work, and family values ofEuropeans. Compilation of the data sets from 1981, 1990, 1999, and2008.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. The overview can be found at:Variable Overview Topics: 1. Perceptions of life: importance of work, family, friendsand acquaintances, leisure time, politics and religion (in Sweden:service to others); frequency of political discussions with friends;happiness; self-assessment of own health; feelings of: excitement orinterest, restlessness, pride because of compliments, loneliness, joyabout completing a thing, boredom, feeling good, depressed or unhappy,managing everything, sadness because of criticism; feelings of therespondent at home: relaxation, anxiety, happiness, aggression orsafety.2. Leisure: way of spending leisure time and definition of leisure;partners for leisure time: alone, with family, friends, at busy places,colleagues, people at churches or at sport and culture; frequency ofpolitical discussions with friends and political opinion leadership;memberships and unpaid work (volunteering) in: social welfare services,religious or church organisations, education, or cultural activities,trade unions, political parties, local political actions, human rights,environmental or peace movement, professional associations, youth work,sports clubs, women´s groups, voluntary associations concerned withhealth consumption or other groups; motives for volunteering; aversionto people with other setting; feelings of loneliness.3. Work: reasons for people to live in need; importance of selectedaspects of occupational work; employment status; general worksatisfaction; freedom of decision-making in the job; importance of work(work ethics, scale); important aspects of leisure time; attitudetowards following instructions at work without criticism (obediencework); jobs scarce: give priority to nationals over foreigners as wellas men over women in jobs, able bodied people over handicapped peopleand forced retirement for the elderly; satisfaction with the financialsituation of the household and expected situation in a year.Work Environment: work orientation and aspects of job satisfaction;importance of selected characteristics of professional work: good pay,little pressure, job security, respectable activity, flexible workinghours, ability to show initiative, a lot of vacation, meetingobjectives, responsibility, interesting work, meeting one´s own skills,nice colleagues, good career opportunities, serving society, contactwith people, good physical conditions of work and weekend leisure,looking forward to work after the weekend, pride of one´s work, familyfriendly, have a say, people treated equally; perceived exploitation inthe workplace; general job satisfaction (scale); satisfaction with jobsecurity; use of paid days off: look for additional salaried work,training, meeting with friends and family, additional working againstboredom, voluntary work, hobbies, running one´s own business,relaxation. 4. Religion: deism or nihilism; opinion about good and evil ineveryone; feel remorse; being worth risking life for: own country, lifeof another person, justice, freedom, peace, religion; individual orgeneral clear guidelines for good and evil; religious denomination;current and former religious denomination; raised religiously; currentfrequency of church attendance and at the age of 12; importance ofreligious celebration at birth, marriage and funeral; self-assessmentof religiousness; churches give adequate answers to moral questions,problems of family life, spiritual needs and social problems of thecountry; assessment of the importance of religion for the future;attitude towards the role of the Church in political issues (scale);belief in God, life after death, soul, hell, heaven, sin, telepathy,reincarnation, angels, devil, resurrection from the dead; stick toreligion vs. explore different traditions; personal God versus spiritor life force; own way of connecting with the divine; interest in thesacred or the supernatural; attitude towards the existence of one truereligion; importance of God in one´s life (10-point-scalometer);experience of comfort and strength from religion and belief; moments ofprayer and meditation; frequency of prayers; approval or rejection ofthe single 10 bids by the respondents and most people; supernaturalexperiences: feeling of connection with someone far away, seeing eventsthat happened far away, felt in touch with someone dead, proximity to apowerful life force, change in the way of looking at life through apsychic experience; relationship between the parents in the youth ofthe respondent; connectivity of respondents with both parents; strictupbringing by parents; belief in supernatural forces; ownership of andbelief in lucky charms or a talisman (10-point-sca...
Die European Values Study ist ein groß angelegtes, länderübergreifendes und längsschnittliches Umfrageforschungsprogramm darüber, wie die Europäer über Familie, Arbeit, Religion, Politik und Gesellschaft denken. Die Umfrage wird alle neun Jahre in einer wachsenden Anzahl von Ländern wiederholt und gibt Einblicke in die Ideen, Überzeugungen, Präferenzen, Einstellungen, Werte und Meinungen der Bürger in ganz Europa.
Das EVS Trend File 1981-2017 wird aus den fünf EVS-Wellen erstellt und deckt fast 40 Jahre ab. In insgesamt 160 Umfragen wurden mehr als 224.000 Befragte aus 48 Ländern/Regionen befragt. Es basiert auf den aktualisierten Daten des EVS Longitudinal Data File 1981-2008 (v.3.1.0) und dem aktuellen EVS 2017 Integrated Dataset (v.5.0.0).
Für das EVS Trend File ist neben dem (faktisch anonymisierten) Scientific-Use File (ZA7503) auch ein Restricted-Use File (ZA7504) verfügbar. Das EVS Trend File - Sensitive Dataset (ZA7504) wird als Zusatzdatei angeboten. Zusätzlich zu einem kleinen Satz von Verwaltungs- und Protokollvariablen, die für die Zusammenführung mit den SUF-Daten benötigt werden, enthält der Sensitive Datensatz folgende Variablen, die aufgrund ihrer sensiblen Natur nicht in die Scientific-Use-File aufgenommen werden konnten:
W005_3 Job profession/industry (3-digit ISCO88) - spouse/partner EVS 2008
W005_3_01 Job profession/industry (3-digit ISCO08) - spouse/partner EVS 2017
W005_4 Job profession/industry (4-digit ISCO88) - spouse/partner EVS 2008
X035_3 Job profession/industry (3-digit ISCO88) – respondent EVS 1999, EVS 2008
X035_3_01 Job profession/industry (3-digit ISCO08) - respondent EVS 2017
X035_4 Job profession/industry (4-digit ISCO88) – respondent EVS 1999, EVS 2008
x048c_n3 Region where the interview was conducted (NUTS-3): NUTS version 2006 EVS 2008
X048J_N3 Region where the interview was conducted (NUTS-3): NUTS version 2016 EVS 2017
X049 Size of town (8 categories) EVS 2008, EVS 2017
Detailierte information über den Anonymisierungsprozedere im EVS Trend File ist im Variablen Report enthalten.
Die European Values Study ist ein groß angelegtes, länderübergreifendes und längsschnittliches Umfrageforschungsprogramm darüber, wie die Europäer über Familie, Arbeit, Religion, Politik und Gesellschaft denken. Die Umfrage wird alle neun Jahre in einer wachsenden Anzahl von Ländern wiederholt und gibt Einblicke in die Ideen, Überzeugungen, Präferenzen, Einstellungen, Werte und Meinungen der Bürger in ganz Europa.
Das EVS Trend File 1981-2017 wird aus den fünf EVS-Wellen erstellt und deckt fast 40 Jahre ab. In insgesamt 160 Umfragen wurden mehr als 224.000 Befragte aus 48 Ländern/Regionen befragt. Es basiert auf den aktualisierten Daten des EVS Longitudinal Data File 1981-2008 (v.3.1.0) und dem aktuellen EVS 2017 Integrated Dataset (v.5.0.0).
Sie folgt einem neuen Ansatz, der mit der WVS vereinbart wurde, um die früheren großen EVS- und WVS-Längsschnitt-Trenddateien in schlankere und einfacher zu verwendende Dateien umzuwandeln. Sowohl die EVS- als auch die WVS-Trenddateien basieren auf dem aktualisierten Common EVS/WVS Dictionary (v.2021). Es enthält nur die Variablen/Fragen, die seit den frühen 1980er Jahren von EVS und/oder WVS repliziert wurden. Der EVS Trend File und der World Values Survey Trend File (1981-2022) können so leicht zusammengeführt werden. Die daraus resultierende Integrated Values Surveys 1981-2022 Datendatei enthält die fünf Wellen der EVS und die sieben Wellen der WVS.
1. Wahrnehmungen des Lebens: Bedeutung von Familie, Freunden und Bekannten, Freizeit, Politik, Arbeit und Religion; Glücksempfinden; Selbsteinschätzung des Gesundheitszustandes; Gefühle: jemals aufgeregt oder interessiert gefühlt, unruhig, stolz wegen Komplimenten, sehr einsam oder entfernt von anderen Menschen, erfreut darüber, etwas erreicht zu haben, gelangweilt, auf dem Gipfel der Welt, sehr unglücklich, dass die Dinge so laufen, verärgert wegen Kritik; Mitgliedschaften und freiwillige Arbeit (unbezahlte Arbeit) in: Sozialeinrichtungen, religiösen oder kirchlichen Organisationen, Bildung, Kunst, Musik oder kulturellen Aktivitäten, Gewerkschaften, politischen Parteien, kommunalpolitischen Aktionen, Menschenrechten, Naturschutz, Umwelt, Ökologie, Tierschutz, Berufsverbänden, Jugendarbeit, Sportvereinen, Frauengruppen, Friedensbewegung, Organisationen, die sich mit Gesundheit befassen, Verbrauchergruppen oder anderen Gruppen, humanitären oder karitativen Organisationen, Selbsthilfegruppen, Hilfsorganisationen auf Gegenseitigkeit, Zugehörigkeit zu keiner; Gründe für ehrenamtliche Arbeit (z. z. B. Solidarität mit Armen und Benachteiligten, Mitgefühl für Bedürftige, etc. ); Toleranz gegenüber Minderheiten als Nachbarn (Vorbestrafte, Andersrassige, starke Trinker, psychisch labile Menschen, Muslime, Einwanderer, Fremdarbeiter, AIDS-Kranke, Drogenabhängige, Homosexuelle, Juden, Zigeuner, Christen, Linksextremisten, Rechtsextremisten, Menschen mit großen Familien und Hindus); den meisten Menschen kann man vertrauen; Einschätzung des fairen und hilfsbereiten Verhaltens von Menschen; Zufriedenheit mit dem Leben; innere oder äußere Kontrolle; Freizeit: Zeit verbringen mit: Freunden, Arbeitskollegen, mit Menschen in der Kirche, Moschee oder Synagoge, mit Menschen beim Sport, in der Kultur, in kommunalen Organisationen.
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This survey is a not up-to-date version. Please, use the updated version included in the EVS integrated data files. This national dataset is only available for replication purposes and analysis with additional country-specific variables (see ´Further Remarks´).
Two online overviews offer comprehensive metadata on the EVS datasets and variables.
The extended study description for the EVS 2008 provides country-specific information on the origin and outcomes of the national surveys 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.
These overviews can be found at: Extended Study Description Variable Overview
Moral, religious, societal, political, work, and family values of Europeans.
Topics: 1. Perceptions of life: importance of work, family, friends and acquaintances, leisure time, politics and religion; frequency of political discussions with friends; happiness; self-assessment of own health; memberships and unpaid work (volunteering) in: social welfare services, religious or church organisations, education, or cultural activities, labour unions, political parties, local political actions, human rights, environmental or peace movement, professional associations, youth work, sports clubs, women´s groups, voluntary associations concerned with health or other groups; tolerance towards minorities (people with a criminal record, of a different race, left/right wing extremists, alcohol addicts, large families, emotionally unstable people, Muslims, immigrants, AIDS sufferers, drug addicts, homosexuals, Jews, gypsies and Christians - social distance); trust in people; estimation of people´s fair and helpful behaviour; internal or external control; satisfaction with life.
Work: reasons for people to live in need; importance of selected aspects of occupational work; employment status; general work satisfaction; freedom of decision-taking in the job; importance of work (work ethics, scale); important aspects of leisure time; attitude towards following instructions at work without criticism (obedience work); give priority to nationals over foreigners as well as men over women in jobs.
Religion: Individual or general clear guidelines for good and evil; religious denomination; current and former religious denomination; current frequency of church attendance and at the age of 12; importance of religious celebration at birth, marriage, and funeral; self-assessment of religiousness; churches give adequate answers to moral questions, problems of family life, spiritual needs and social problems of the country; belief in God, life after death, hell, heaven, sin and re-incarnation; personal God versus spirit or life force; own way of connecting with the divine; interest in the sacred or the supernatural; attitude towards the existence of one true religion; importance of God in one´s life (10-point-scale); experience of comfort and strength from religion and belief; moments of prayer and meditation; frequency of prayers; belief in lucky charms or a talisman (10-point-scale); attitude towards the separation of church and state.
Family and marriage: most important criteria for a successful marriage (scale); attitude towards childcare (a child needs a home with father and mother, a woman has to have children to be fulfilled, marriage is an out-dated institution, woman as a single-parent); attitude towards marriage, children, and traditional family structure (scale); attitude towards traditional understanding of one´s role of man and woman in occupation and family (scale); attitude towards: respect and love for parents, parent´s responsibilities for their children and the responsibility of adult children for their parents when they are in need of long-term care; importance of educational goals; attitude towards abortion.
Politics and society: political interest; political participation; preference for individual freedom or social equality; self-assessment on a left-right continuum (10-point-scale); self-responsibility or governmental provision; free decision of job-taking of the unemployed or no permission to refuse a job; advantage or harmfulness of competition; liberty of firms or governmental control; equal incomes or incentives for indivi...
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P0830b14 A large scale cross-national and continuous survey of moral, religious, political and social values in Western Europe. Religious attitudes, beliefs, practice, affiliation. Moral outlook. Political interest, inclination, participation. Attitudes towards reform, civic institution, means of production. Other political values indicators. Personal values, attitudes towards the family, marriage, divorce, sex. Work values. Perception of the future. Satisfaction ratings, indicators of psychological well-being, health. Range of socio-demographic variables: sex, age, housing tenure and type, terminal education age, household size and composition, marital status, employment status, occupational code for respondent and chief wage earner, workplace details, trade union membership, regional codes, area types, income on a scale. Additional data include: leisure activities, voluntary work, attitudes towards science, war, terrorism, index of internationalism, attitudes towards a shorter working week. Measurement by: personal values scale, moral justification scale, work values scale, work orientation scale, left-right ( political ) scale, political protest scale, materialist-post-materialist scale, greeley spiritual experience battery Constructed variables in P0830B: C81_1 to C81_51 are constructs which can be used to make comparisons with the same constructs in P1217 named C90_1 to C90_51. Topics of constructs: religiosity, church involvement, moral values, conservatism-progressiveness, confidence in institutions, intolerance, materialism-postmaterialism, political involvement, Bradburn's affect balance scale, marriage, family, abortion, education, work. Background variables: basic characteristics/ residence/ income/capital assets/ religion/ readership, mass media, and 'cultural' exposure/ organizational membership
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This survey is a not up-to-date version. Please, use the updated version included in the EVS integrated data files. This national dataset is only available for replication purposes and analysis with additional country-specific variables (see ´Further Remarks´).
Two online overviews offer comprehensive metadata on the EVS datasets and variables.
The extended study description for the EVS 2008 provides country-specific information on the origin and outcomes of the national surveys 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.
These overviews can be found at: Extended Study Description Variable Overview
Moral, religious, societal, political, work, and family values of Europeans.
Topics: 1. Perceptions of life: importance of work, family, friends and acquaintances, leisure time, politics and religion; frequency of political discussions with friends; happiness; self-assessment of own health; memberships and unpaid work (volunteering) in: social welfare services, religious or church organisations, education, or cultural activities, labour unions, political parties, local political actions, human rights, environmental or peace movement, professional associations, youth work, sports clubs, women´s groups, voluntary associations concerned with health or other groups; tolerance towards minorities (people with a criminal record, of a different race, left/right wing extremists, alcohol addicts, large families, emotionally unstable people, Muslims, immigrants, AIDS sufferers, drug addicts, homosexuals, Jews, gypsies and Christians - social distance); trust in people; estimation of people´s fair and helpful behaviour; internal or external control; satisfaction with life.
Work: reasons for people to live in need; importance of selected aspects of occupational work; employment status; general work satisfaction; freedom of decision-taking in the job; importance of work (work ethics, scale); important aspects of leisure time; attitude towards following instructions at work without criticism (obedience work); give priority to nationals over foreigners as well as men over women in jobs.
Religion: Individual or general clear guidelines for good and evil; religious denomination; current and former religious denomination; current frequency of church attendance and at the age of 12; importance of religious celebration at birth, marriage, and funeral; self-assessment of religiousness; churches give adequate answers to moral questions, problems of family life, spiritual needs and social problems of the country; belief in God, life after death, hell, heaven, sin and re-incarnation; personal God versus spirit or life force; own way of connecting with the divine; interest in the sacred or the supernatural; attitude towards the existence of one true religion; importance of God in one´s life (10-point-scale); experience of comfort and strength from religion and belief; moments of prayer and meditation; frequency of prayers; belief in lucky charms or a talisman (10-point-scale); attitude towards the separation of church and state.
Family and marriage: most important criteria for a successful marriage (scale); attitude towards childcare (a child needs a home with father and mother, a woman has to have children to be fulfilled, marriage is an out-dated institution, woman as a single-parent); attitude towards marriage, children, and traditional family structure (scale); attitude towards traditional understanding of one´s role of man and woman in occupation and family (scale); attitude towards: respect and love for parents, parent´s responsibilities for their children and the responsibility of adult children for their parents when they are in need of long-term care; importance of educational goals; attitude towards abortion.
Politics and society: political interest; political participation; preference for individual freedom or social equality; self-assessment on a left-right continuum (10-point-scale); self-responsibility or governmental provision; free decision of job-taking of the unemployed or no permission to refuse a job; advantage or harmfulness of competition; liberty of firms or governmental control; equal incomes or incentives for indivi...
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The European Values Study (EVS) and World Values Survey (WVS) series is designed to enable a cross-national, cross-cultural comparison of values and norms on a wide variety of topics and to monitor changes in values and attitudes across the globe. The WVS is one of the world's most extensive and most widely used social surveys. Since 1981, it has captured the views of almost 400,000 respondents in over 110 countries, covering topics including cultural identity, migration, trust, empathy, tolerance, media consumption, political interest, the environment and more.
These surveys show pervasive changes in what people want out of life and what they believe. To monitor these changes, the EVS/WVS has executed seven waves of surveys to date at various times between 1981 and 2022. Representative national samples of each society's public are interviewed using a standardised questionnaire covering various social, economic, cultural and religious topics. The countries included in these surveys cover the full range from very poor countries to very rich ones, from authoritarian systems to liberal democracies, covering all major cultural zones.
Further information about each survey series can be found on the EVS and WVS websites.
The European Values Study (EVS) is a large-scale, cross-national, repeated cross-sectional survey research programme on how Europeans think about family, work, religion, politics and society. The survey, which has been conducted every nine years since 1981, provides insights into the ideas, beliefs, preferences, attitudes, values, and opinions of people living in Europe. This record concerns British participation in the fifth wave, EVS 2017, which was carried out in conjunction with the seventh wave of the World Values Survey.
The European Values Study (EVS) is a large-scale, cross-national, repeated cross-sectional survey research programme on basic human values. It provides insights into the ideas, beliefs, preferences, attitudes, values and opinions of citizens all over Europe. It is a unique investigation into how Europeans think about life, family, work, religion, politics and society.
The EVS started in 1981, when a thousand citizens in each of the European member states of that time were interviewed using standardized questionnaires. The survey has been repeated every nine years in an increasing number of countries. The fourth wave in 2008 covered no fewer than 46 European countries, from Ireland to Azerbaijan and from Portugal to Norway. The fifth wave in 2017 is being run in cooperation with the World Values Survey (which grew out of the EVS) and will extend to scores of countries around the world.
This grant will support British participation in the 2017 EVS/WVS survey.
The central research question is whether values are changing in modern European society, to what extent and in what direction. Values are basic convictions that are prior to, and help to organize, more particular attitudes, actions and moral judgments. The question of how and why values are changing is important because values determine what people care about, with potentially profound impact on society and politics.
The questionnaire covers topics that include national identity, culture, diversity, insecurity, support for democracy, tolerance of foreigners and ethnic minorities, support for gender equality, the role of religion, the impact of globalization, attitudes towards the environment, work, family, politics, subjective well-being, and so on. The questionnaire also contains items on issues of personal and civic ethics, from smoking indoors to suicide. The overarching topic of the current EVS wave is 'Social Solidarity and European Identity'.
Many of the items replicate those from previous surveys, thus enabling analysis of change over time on the key dimensions. With the addition of the new wave, the EVS/WVS study will be a unique source of trend data for the past four decades. The range of potential research questions that can be addressed by scholars and research users is very wide, involving any of the topics covered, using either this dataset on its own or in conjunction with previous waves, and looking either at Great Britain alone, comparisons within Europe, or global cross-national comparisons.
The EVS allows researchers to investigate whether economic harmonisation is accompanied by cultural and ideological integration. Three and a half decades on from the first survey in 1981, the questions are as important as ever. The benefits of transnationalism are disputed; the impact of globalisation in an open market has been strongly felt, and debates continue over the nature of national identity and the consequences of cultural diversity. Support for both the European project and the development of multicultural societies has wavered, divided to some extent along social fault lines defined by region, generation, education and class.
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This survey is a not up-to-date version. Please, use the updated version included in the EVS integrated data files. This national dataset is only available for replication purposes and analysis with additional country-specific variables (see ´Further Remarks´).
Two online overviews offer comprehensive metadata on the EVS datasets and variables.
The extended study description for the EVS 2008 provides country-specific information on the origin and outcomes of the national surveys 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.
These overviews can be found at: Extended Study Description Variable Overview
Moral, religious, societal, political, work, and family values of Europeans.
Topics: 1. Perceptions of life: importance of work, family, friends and acquaintances, leisure time, politics and religion; frequency of political discussions with friends; happiness; self-assessment of own health; memberships and unpaid work (volunteering) in: social welfare services, religious or church organisations, education, or cultural activities, labour unions, political parties, local political actions, human rights, environmental or peace movement, professional associations, youth work, sports clubs, women´s groups, voluntary associations concerned with health or other groups; tolerance towards minorities (people with a criminal record, of a different race, left/right wing extremists, alcohol addicts, large families, emotionally unstable people, Muslims, immigrants, AIDS sufferers, drug addicts, homosexuals, Jews, gypsies and Christians - social distance); trust in people; estimation of people´s fair and helpful behaviour; internal or external control; satisfaction with life.
Work: reasons for people to live in need; importance of selected aspects of occupational work; employment status; general work satisfaction; freedom of decision-taking in the job; importance of work (work ethics, scale); important aspects of leisure time; attitude towards following instructions at work without criticism (obedience work); give priority to nationals over foreigners as well as men over women in jobs.
Religion: Individual or general clear guidelines for good and evil; religious denomination; current and former religious denomination; current frequency of church attendance and at the age of 12; importance of religious celebration at birth, marriage, and funeral; self-assessment of religiousness; churches give adequate answers to moral questions, problems of family life, spiritual needs and social problems of the country; belief in God, life after death, hell, heaven, sin and re-incarnation; personal God versus spirit or life force; own way of connecting with the divine; interest in the sacred or the supernatural; attitude towards the existence of one true religion; importance of God in one´s life (10-point-scale); experience of comfort and strength from religion and belief; moments of prayer and meditation; frequency of prayers; belief in lucky charms or a talisman (10-point-scale); attitude towards the separation of church and state.
Family and marriage: most important criteria for a successful marriage (scale); attitude towards childcare (a child needs a home with father and mother, a woman has to have children to be fulfilled, marriage is an out-dated institution, woman as a single-parent); attitude towards marriage, children, and traditional family structure (scale); attitude towards traditional understanding of one´s role of man and woman in occupation and family (scale); attitude towards: respect and love for parents, parent´s responsibilities for their children and the responsibility of adult children for their parents when they are in need of long-term care; importance of educational goals; attitude towards abortion.
Politics and society: political interest; political participation; preference for individual freedom or social equality; self-assessment on a left-right continuum (10-point-scale); self-responsibility or governmental provision; free decision of job-taking of the unemployed or no permission to refuse a job; advantage or harmfulness of competition; liberty of firms or governmental control; equal incomes or incentives for indivi...
This survey is a not up-to-date version. Please, use the updated version included in the EVS integrated data files. This national dataset is only available for replication purposes and analysis with additional country-specific variables (see ´Further Remarks´).
Two online overviews offer comprehensive metadata on the EVS datasets and variables.
The extended study description for the EVS 2008 provides country-specific information on the origin and outcomes of the national surveys 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.
These overviews can be found at: Extended Study Description Variable Overview
Moral, religious, societal, political, work, and family values of Europeans.
Topics: 1. Perceptions of life: importance of work, family, friends and acquaintances, leisure time, politics and religion; frequency of political discussions with friends; happiness; self-assessment of own health; memberships and unpaid work (volunteering) in: social welfare services, religious or church organisations, education, or cultural activities, labour unions, political parties, local political actions, human rights, environmental or peace movement, professional associations, youth work, sports clubs, women´s groups, voluntary associations concerned with health or other groups; tolerance towards minorities (people with a criminal record, of a different race, left/right wing extremists, alcohol addicts, large families, emotionally unstable people, Muslims, immigrants, AIDS sufferers, drug addicts, homosexuals, Jews, gypsies and Christians - social distance); trust in people; estimation of people´s fair and helpful behaviour; internal or external control; satisfaction with life.
Work: reasons for people to live in need; importance of selected aspects of occupational work; employment status; general work satisfaction; freedom of decision-taking in the job; importance of work (work ethics, scale); important aspects of leisure time; attitude towards following instructions at work without criticism (obedience work); give priority to nationals over foreigners as well as men over women in jobs.
Religion: Individual or general clear guidelines for good and evil; religious denomination; current and former religious denomination; current frequency of church attendance and at the age of 12; importance of religious celebration at birth, marriage, and funeral; self-assessment of religiousness; churches give adequate answers to moral questions, problems of family life, spiritual needs and social problems of the country; belief in God, life after death, hell, heaven, sin and re-incarnation; personal God versus spirit or life force; own way of connecting with the divine; interest in the sacred or the supernatural; attitude towards the existence of one true religion; importance of God in one´s life (10-point-scale); experience of comfort and strength from religion and belief; moments of prayer and meditation; frequency of prayers; belief in lucky charms or a talisman (10-point-scale); attitude towards the separation of church and state.
Family and marriage: most important criteria for a successful marriage (scale); attitude towards childcare (a child needs a home with father and mother, a woman has to have children to be fulfilled, marriage is an out-dated institution, woman as a single-parent); attitude towards marriage, children, and traditional family structure (scale); attitude towards traditional understanding of one´s role of man and woman in occupation and family (scale); attitude towards: respect and love for parents, parent´s responsibilities for their children and the responsibility of adult children for their parents when they are in need of long-term care; importance of educational goals; attitude towards abortion.
Politics and society: political interest; political participation; preference for individual freedom or social equality; self-assessment on a left-right continuum (10-point-scale); self-responsibility or governmental provision; free decision of job-taking of the unemployed or no permission to refuse a job; advantage or harmfulness of competition; liberty of firms or governmental control; equal incomes or incentives for individual efforts; attitude concerning capitalism versus government ownership; postmaterialism (scale); expectation of future development (less emphasis on money and material possessions, greater respect for authority); trust in institutions; satisfaction with democracy; assessment of the political system of the country as good or bad (10-point-scale); preferred type of political system (strong leader, expert decisions, army should rule the country, or democracy); attitude towards democracy (scale).
Moral attitudes (scale: claiming state benefits without entitlement, cheating on taxes, joyriding, taking soft drugs, lying, adultery,...
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This survey is a not up-to-date version. Please, use the updated version included in the EVS integrated data files. This national dataset is only available for replication purposes and analysis with additional country-specific variables (see ´Further Remarks´).
Two online overviews offer comprehensive metadata on the EVS datasets and variables.
The extended study description for the EVS 2008 provides country-specific information on the origin and outcomes of the national surveys 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.
Moral, religious, societal, political, work, and family values of Europeans.
Topics: 1. Perceptions of life: importance of work, family, friends and acquaintances, leisure time, politics and religion; frequency of political discussions with friends; happiness; self-assessment of own health; memberships and unpaid work (volunteering) in: social welfare services, religious or church organisations, education, or cultural activities, labour unions, political parties, local political actions, human rights, environmental or peace movement, professional associations, youth work, sports clubs, women´s groups, voluntary associations concerned with health or other groups; tolerance towards minorities (people with a criminal record, of a different race, left/right wing extremists, alcohol addicts, large families, emotionally unstable people, Muslims, immigrants, AIDS sufferers, drug addicts, homosexuals, Jews, gypsies and Christians - social distance); trust in people; estimation of people´s fair and helpful behaviour; internal or external control; satisfaction with life.
Work: reasons for people to live in need; importance of selected aspects of occupational work; employment status; general work satisfaction; freedom of decision-taking in the job; importance of work (work ethics, scale); important aspects of leisure time; attitude towards following instructions at work without criticism (obedience work); give priority to nationals over foreigners as well as men over women in jobs.
Religion: Individual or general clear guidelines for good and evil; religious denomination; current and former religious denomination; current frequency of church attendance and at the age of 12; importance of religious celebration at birth, marriage, and funeral; self-assessment of religiousness; churches give adequate answers to moral questions, problems of family life, spiritual needs and social problems of the country; belief in God, life after death, hell, heaven, sin and re-incarnation; personal God versus spirit or life force; own way of connecting with the divine; interest in the sacred or the supernatural; attitude towards the existence of one true religion; importance of God in one´s life (10-point-scale); experience of comfort and strength from religion and belief; moments of prayer and meditation; frequency of prayers; belief in lucky charms or a talisman (10-point-scale); attitude towards the separation of church and state.
Family and marriage: most important criteria for a successful marriage (scale); attitude towards childcare (a child needs a home with father and mother, a woman has to have children to be fulfilled, marriage is an out-dated institution, woman as a single-parent); attitude towards marriage, children, and traditional family structure (scale); attitude towards traditional understanding of one´s role of man and woman in occupation and family (scale); attitude towards: respect and love for parents, parent´s responsibilities for their children and the responsibility of adult children for their parents when they are in need of long-term care; importance of educational goals; attitude towards abortion.
Politics and society: political interest; political participation; preference for individual freedom or social equality; self-assessment on a left-right continuum (10-point-scale); self-responsibility or governmental provision; free decision of job-taking of the unemployed or no permission to refuse a job; advantage or harmfulness of competition; liberty of firms or governmental control; equal incomes or incentives for individual efforts; attitude concerning capitalism versus government ownership; postmaterialism (scale); expectation of future development (less emphasis on money and material possessions, greater respect for auth...
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The European Values Study is designed to enable cross-national comparison of values, beliefs and attitudes, as well as preferences and priorities, and the changes in time concerning these issues. Uniform questionnaires were used to interview representative samples in 33 European countries: Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Northern Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, and the Ukraine. The EVS 1999/2000 is the third wave (after 1981 and 1990) covering the following fields: religion and morality / politics, society and economy / work and leisure-time / primary relations. For more detailed information, and information about updates: see also the EVS website. Date Submitted: 2003-09-01 Date Submitted: 2007-07-30
The World Values Survey is a worldwide investigation of sociocultural and political change. It is conducted by a network of social scientist at leading universities all around world.
Interviews have been carried out with nationally representative samples of the publics of more than 80 societies on all six inhabited continents. The first wave of the values survey was collected in 198. This was mainly a European endeavor (se EVS). From the second wave the global representation rose dramatically making it possible to carry out reliable global cross-cultural analyses and analysis of changes over time. The World Values Survey has produced evidence of gradual but pervasive changes in what people want out of life. Moreover, the survey shows that the basic direction of these changes is, to some extent, predictable.
Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Great Britain, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mali, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain,Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, China, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
individuals
WVS surveys are required to cover all residents (not only citizens) between the ages of 18 and 85, inclusive. PI's can lower the minimum age limit as long as the minimum required sample size for the 18+ population is achieved.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Detailed sample guidlines for each Round as well as each country can be obtained from here:
http://www.wvsevsdb.com/wvs/WVSTechnical.jsp?Idioma=I
General Guidlines:
The preferred method of sampling for WVS surveys is the full probability sample. However, recognizing that the very high cost -in terms of finances, manpower and time- of full probability samples may prove to be prohibitive in some cases, WVS allows quota sampling provided that the following principles are strictly adhered to:
Selection of first stage clusters within PSUs must be probabilistic (and preferably PPS).
Quota sampling should be used only within reasonably small sized clusters that have been selected probabilistically.
Whether the sampling method is full probability or a combination of probability and quota, the minimum number of PSUs is 30. A design with less than 30 PSUs is not permissible.
B. SAMPLE SIZE The minimum sample size (i.e. the number of completed interviews) is 1,000. However, given the fact that in most designs the "effective sample size" (sample size net of design effects) is lower than the actual sample size, larger sample sizes are strongly recommended if at all possible.
C. NON-RESPONSE Non-response is an issue of increasing concern in sample surveys. Investigators are expected to make every reasonable effort to minimize non-response.
More specifically, 1. In countries using a full probability design, no replacements are allowed. PIs should plan on as many call-backs as the funding will allow. 2. In countries using some form of quota sampling, every effort should be made to interview the first contact. In any case, and as indicated below, a full report on non-responses is required.
Face-to-face [f2f]
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The European Values Study (EVS) and World Values Survey (WVS) series is designed to enable a cross-national, cross-cultural comparison of values and norms on a wide variety of topics and to monitor changes in values and attitudes across the globe. The WVS is one of the world's most extensive and most widely used social surveys. Since 1981, it has captured the views of almost 400,000 respondents in over 110 countries, covering topics including cultural identity, migration, trust, empathy, tolerance, media consumption, political interest, the environment and more.
These surveys show pervasive changes in what people want out of life and what they believe. To monitor these changes, the EVS/WVS has executed seven waves of surveys to date at various times between 1981 and 2022. Representative national samples of each society's public are interviewed using a standardised questionnaire covering various social, economic, cultural and religious topics. The countries included in these surveys cover the full range from very poor countries to very rich ones, from authoritarian systems to liberal democracies, covering all major cultural zones.
Further information about each survey series can be found on the EVS and WVS websites.
Die Variablenübersicht über die vier Wellen EVS 1981, 1990, 1999/2000 und 2008 ermöglicht die Identifizierung der Trendvariablen in allen vier Wellen sowie länderspezifischer Abweichungen im Fragewortlaut innerhalb und zwischen den EVS Wellen.
Diese Übersicht ist abrufbar unter: Online Variable Overview .
Moralische, religiöse, gesellschaftliche, politische, ökonomische und soziale Wertvorstellungen der Europäer.
Themen: Glücksgefühle; subjektiver Gesundheitszustand; Gefühle von: Aufregung oder Interesse, Rastlosigkeit, Stolz aufgrund von Komplimenten, Einsamkeit, Freude über Vollendung einer Sache, Langeweile, Wohlfühlen, Depression oder Unzufriedenheit, Traurigkeit bei Kritik; Gefühlslage des Befragten zu Hause: Entspannung, Angst, Zufriedenheit, Aggression, Sicherheit; Respekt und Liebe für die Eltern; Verantwortlichkeit der Eltern für ihre Kinder; wichtige Erziehungsziele bei Kindern: gute Manieren, Höflichkeit, Unabhängigkeit, harte Arbeit, Ehrlichkeit, Verantwortungsgefühl, Geduld, Vorstellungskraft, Toleranz und Respekt für andere, Führungsrolle, Selbstkontrolle, Sparsamkeit, Beharrlichkeit, religiöser Glaube, Bescheidenheit, Gehorsam, Loyalität; Rechtfertigung von Abtreibung bei: gesundheitlichem Risiko für die Mutter, Behinderung des Kindes, Mutter nicht verheiratet, fehlendem Kinderwunsch; Freizeitgestaltung: allein, mit der Familie, mit Freunden, an belebten Orten; Diskussion politischer Themen mit Freunden; politische Meinungsführerschaft; Mitgliedschaften und ehrenamtliches Engagement bei: Unterstützung älterer Menschen, religiösen Organisationen, kulturellen Aktivitäten, Gewerkschaften, Parteien, Menschenrechten, Umwelt- und Tierschutz, Berufsvereinigung, Jugendarbeit und Verbraucherschutz; Abneigung gegenüber Leuten mit anderer Einstellung; Einsamkeitsgefühl; Einschätzung der allgemeinen Hilfsbereitschaft in der heutigen Zeit; Beschreibung des sozialen Umfelds in der Nachbarschaft des Befragten: Personen mit kriminellem Hintergrund, von anderer Hautfarbe, mit Alkoholproblemen, mit emotional instabiler Persönlichkeit, Immigranten, Links-Extremisten, Rechts-Extremisten, mit großen Familien, Studenten, allein erziehende Mütter, religiöse Minderheiten; vertrauenswürdige Person; gegenseitiges Vertrauen jüngerer Menschen zu älteren; Lebenszufriedenheit allgemein, vor fünf Jahren und in fünf Jahren; empfundene Freiheit und Selbstbestimmung; Zufriedenheit mit der eigenen finanziellen Situation; erwartete finanzielle Situation in 12 Monaten; Arbeitsorientierung und Aspekte von Arbeitszufriedenheit: gute Bezahlung, wenig Druck, Arbeitsplatzsicherheit, angesehene Tätigkeit, flexible Arbeitszeit, Möglichkeit zur Eigeninitiative, viel Urlaub, Erfüllung von Zielen, Verantwortung, Entsprechung der eigenen Fähigkeiten, nette Arbeitskollegen, gute Aufstiegschancen, der Gesellschaft dienlich und Kontakt zu Menschen; Freude, nach dem Wochenende zur Arbeit zu gehen; Stolz auf geleistete Arbeit; Ausnutzung am Arbeitsplatz; Zufriedenheit mit der Arbeit; Entscheidungsfreiheit bei der Arbeit; Nutzung von bezahlten freien Tagen: Suche nach zusätzlicher entlohnter Arbeit, Fortbildung, Treffen mit Freunden und Familie, zusätzliche Arbeit gegen die Langeweile, ehrenamtliche Tätigkeit, Hobbys, Leitung eines eigenen Geschäfts, Entspannung; Gerechtigkeitsempfinden bei unterschiedlicher Bezahlung zweier Angestellter; Präferenz für Mitbestimmung oder staatliche Steuerung von Unternehmen; Einstellung zum bedingungslosen Befolgen von Anweisungen bei der Arbeit; Zufriedenheit mit dem Privatleben; Übereinstimmen der Ansichten des Partners sowie der Eltern mit dem Befragten im Hinblick auf: Religion, moralische Standards, soziale Einstellungen, politische Ansichten und sexuelle Vorstellungen; ideale Kinderzahl; Einstellungen zum Aufwachsen von Kindern mit beiden Elternteilen, zur Erfüllung der Frau durch Kinder, zu sexueller Selbstbestimmung, zur Ehe als überholte Institution, zu allein erziehenden Frauen, zum Ausleben sexueller Freiheit; wichtige Aspekte für eine erfolgreiche Ehe: Treue, gutes Einkommen, gleicher sozialer Hintergrund, Respekt und Anerkennung, religiöser Hintergrund, gute Unterkunft, politisches Einvernehmen, Verstehen und Toleranz, Abstand von Angeheirateten, gute sexuelle Beziehung, Arbeitsteilung im Haushalt, Kinder, gleicher Geschmack und Interessen; akzeptierte Gründe für eine Scheidung: finanzieller Bankrott, Krankheit, Alkoholabhängigkeit, Gewalttätigkeit oder Untreue seitens des Partners, sexuelle Unzufriedenheit, fehlende Liebe, Nicht-Verstehen mit Verwandten, Kinderlosigkeit, unterschiedliche Persönlichkeiten; Lebensziele des Befragten; Hauptziel von Gefängnisstrafe; Bereitschaft für sein Land zu kämpfen; Einschätzung der Kriegswahrscheinlichkeit im eigenen Land in den nächsten fünf Jahren; erwartete Veränderungen von Werten wie: materielle Güter, Arbeit, Technologie, Individuum, Autoritätsgläubigkeit, Familie, einfachem Lebensstil; Einstellung zum wissenschaftlichen Fortschritt;...
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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. Perceptions of life: importance of work, family, friends and acquaintances, leisure time, politics and religion (in Sweden: service to others); frequency of political discussions with friends; happiness; self-assessment of own health; feelings of: excitement or interest, restlessness, pride because of compliments, loneliness, joy about completing a thing, boredom, feeling good, depressed or unhappy, managing everything, sadness because of criticism; feelings of the respondent at home: relaxation, anxiety, happiness, aggression or safety.
Leisure: way of spending leisure time and definition of leisure; partners for leisure time: alone, with family, friends, at busy places, colleagues, people at churches or at sport and culture; frequency of political discussions with friends and political opinion leadership; memberships and unpaid work (volunteering) in: social welfare services, religious or church organisations, education, or cultural activities, trade unions, political parties, local political actions, human rights, environmental or peace movement, professional associations, youth work, sports clubs, women´s groups, voluntary associations concerned with health consumption or other groups; motives for volunteering; aversion to people with other setting; feelings of loneliness.
Work: reasons for people to live in need; importance of selected aspects of occupational work; employment status; general work satisfaction; freedom of decision-making in the job; importance of work (work ethics, scale); important aspects of leisure time; attitude towards following instructions at work without criticism (obedience work); jobs scarce: give priority to nationals over foreigners as well as men over women in jobs, able bodied people over handicapped people and forced retirement for the elderly; satisfaction with the financial situation of the household and expected situation in a year.
Work Environment: work orientation and aspects of job satisfaction; importance of selected characteristics of professional work: good pay, little pressure, job security, respectable activity, flexible working hours, ability to show initiative, a lot of vacation, meeting objectives, responsibility, interesting work, meeting one´s own skills, nice colleagues, good career opportunities, serving society, contact with people, good physical conditions of work and weekend leisure, looking forward to work after the weekend, pride of one´s work, family friendly, have a say, people treated equally; perceived exploitation in the workplace; general job satisfaction (scale); satisfaction with job security; use of paid days off: look for additional salaried work, training, meeting with friends and family, additional working against boredom, voluntary work, hobbies, running one´s own business, relaxation.