This survey, using a partial World Value Survey, 2018 questionnaire, was conducted by the Australian National University to assess Australians’ opinions on important and topical issues. This is the seventh wave of the WVS. The questionnaire was developed by the World Values Survey committee, and was adapted by Australian National University in consultation with the Social Research Centre. The study was also designed as a comparison between the Life in Australia™ panel and the official World Values Survey, 2018, running concurrently.

The dataset at hand is an outdated version of the Integrated EVS/WVS values surveys. Since 2011 two separate longitudinal data files have been offered by EVS and WVS, including the waves 1981-1984, 1989-1993, 1994-1999, 1999-2004, 2005-2009, 2010-2014, and 2017-2020. For this reason, the 2006 version of the dataset is only available for replication purposes and upon request from the Data Services. The current EVS Trend File 1981-2017 ZA7503 is released through the GESIS Data Catalogue and can be easily merged with the World Values Survey (1981-2021) to an Integrated Values Surveys 1981-2021 Data File.

The World Values Survey (WVS) series was designed to enable a crossnational, crosscultural comparison of values and norms on a wide variety of topics and to monitor changes in values and attitudes across the globe. This dataset contains the survey data from the Australian component of the seventh wave of the World Values Surveys carried out in 2018. The World Values Survey is the world’s most comprehensive investigation of political and sociocultural change. It is an international survey with the 2018 ‘wave’ covering at least 95 countries. The purpose of the survey is to investigate worldwide political and sociocultural change and is conducted by a network of social scientists from leading universities around the world. Broad topics covered in the 2018, seventh wave include personal values, trust, gender roles, subjective wellbeing, volunteering, self-perceptions, social and economic environment, inequality, confidence in institutions, politics and democracy, religion, perceptions of older people, perceptions of crime and security, national identity, media and technology. Demographic information includes size of locality, region of residence, occupation of the head of household, and the respondent's age, sex, marital status, number of children, employment status, occupation, social class, country of birth, ethnicity, education, religion, religiosity, political party, and left-right political self-placement.

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

National Population, Both sexes,18 and more years.

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

Sample size: 2232

When Knowledge Networks began recruiting in 1999, the company established the first online research panel (now called KnowledgePanel®) based on probability sampling covering both the online and offline populations in the U.S. Panel members are recruited through national random samples, originally by telephone and now almost entirely by postal mail. Households are provided with access to the Internet and hardware if needed. Unlike Internet convenience panels, also known as “opt-in” panels, that includes only individuals with Internet access who volunteer themselves for research, KnowledgePanel recruitment uses dual sampling frames that includes both listed and unlisted telephone numbers, telephone and non-telephone households, and cellphone- only households, as well as households with and without Internet access. Only persons sampled through these probability-based techniques are eligible to participate on KnowledgePanel. Unless invited to do so as part of these national samples, no one on their own can volunteer to be on the panel. For more information on the sampling procedure refer to the Technical Report of the related materials.

Mode of data collection

Internet [int]

Research instrument

For each wave, suggestions for questions are solicited by social scientists from all over the world and a final master questionnaire is developed in English. Since the start in 1981 each successive wave has covered a broader range of societies than the previous one. Analysis of the data from each wave has indicated that certain questions tapped interesting and important concepts while others were of little value. This has led to the more useful questions or themes being replicated in future waves while the less useful ones have been dropped making room for new questions.

The questionnaire is translated into the various national languages and in many cases independently translated back to English to check the accuracy of the translation. In most countries, the translated questionnaire is pre-tested to help identify questions for which the translation is problematic. In some cases certain problematic questions are omitted from the national questionnaire.

WVS requires implementation of the common questionnaire fully and faithfully, in all countries included into one wave. Any alteration to the original questionnaire has to be approved by the EC. Omission of no more than a maximum of 12 questions in any given country can be allowed.

Response rate

70.86%

Sampling error estimates

Estimated error: 2.1

The World Values Survey (WVS) is an international research program devoted to the scientific and academic study of social, political, economic, religious and cultural values of people in the world. The project’s goal is to assess which impact values stability or change over time has on the social, political and economic development of countries and societies. The project grew out of the European Values Study and was started in 1981 by its Founder and first President (1981-2013) Professor Ronald Inglehart from the University of Michigan (USA) and his team, and since then has been operating in more than 120 world societies. The main research instrument of the project is a representative comparative social survey which is conducted globally every 5 years. Extensive geographical and thematic scope, free availability of survey data and project findings for broad public turned the WVS into one of the most authoritative and widely-used cross-national surveys in the social sciences. At the moment, WVS is the largest non-commercial cross-national empirical time-series investigation of human beliefs and values ever executed. Interview Mode of collection: mixed mode Face-to-face interview: CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) Face-to-face interview: PAPI (Paper and Pencil Interview) Telephone interview: CATI (Computer Assisted Telephone Interview) Self-administered questionnaire: CAWI (Computer-Assisted Web Interview) Self-administered questionnaire: Paper Web-based Interview In all countries, fieldwork was conducted on the basis of detailed and uniform instructions prepared by the WVS Scientific Committee and WVSA secretariat. The main data collection mode in 1981-2012 was face to face (interviewer-administered) interview with the printed questionnaire. Postal surveys (respondent-administered) have been used in Canada, New Zealanda, Japan, Australia. CAPI and online data collection modes have been introduced first in WVS-6 in 2012-2014. The main data collection mode in WVS 2017-2022 is face to face (interviewer-administered) interview with a printed or electronic questionnaire (CAPI). Several countries employed mixed-mode approach to data collection: USA (CAWI; CATI); Australia and Japan (CAWI; postal survey); Hong Kong SAR (PAPI; CAWI); Malaysia (CAWI; PAPI). The WVS Master Questionnaire is always provided in English and each national survey team has to ensure that the questionnaire was translated into all the languages spoken by 15% or more of the population in the country. A central team monitors the translation process. The target population is defined as: individuals aged 18 (16/17 is acceptable in the countries with such voting age) or older (with no upper age limit), regardless of their nationality, citizenship or language, that have been residing in the [country] within private households for the past 6 months prior to the date of beginning of fieldwork (or in the date of the first visit to the household, in case of random-route selection). The sampling procedures differ from country to country; probability Sample: Multistage Sample Probability Sample, Simple Random Sample Representative single stage or multi-stage sampling of the adult population of the country 18 (16) years old and older was used for the WVS 1981-2020. In 1981-2012, the required sample size for each coutnry was N=1000 or above. In 2017-2021, the sample size was set as effective sample size: 1200 for countries with population over 2 million, 1000 for countries with population less than 2 million. As an exception, few surveys with smaller sample sizes have been accepted into the WVS 1981-2020 through the WVSA's history. Sample design and other relevant information about sampling are reviewed by the WVS Scientific Advisory Committee and approved prior to contracting of fieldwork agency or starting of data collection. The sampling is documented using the Survey Design Form delivered by the national teams which included the description of the sampling frame and each sampling stage as well as the calculation of the planned gross and net sample size to achieve the required effective sample. Additionally, it included the analytical description of the inclusion probabilities of the sampling design that are used to calculate design weights.

The World Values Survey (WVS) is an international research program devoted to the scientific and academic study of social, political, economic, religious and cultural values of people in the world. The project’s goal is to assess which impact values stability or change over time has on the social, political and economic development of countries and societies. The project grew out of the European Values Study and was started in 1981 by its Founder and first President (1981-2013) Professor Ronald Inglehart from the University of Michigan (USA) and his team, and since then has been operating in more than 120 world societies. The main research instrument of the project is a representative comparative social survey which is conducted globally every 5 years. Extensive geographical and thematic scope, free availability of survey data and project findings for broad public turned the WVS into one of the most authoritative and widely-used cross-national surveys in the social sciences. At the moment, WVS is the largest non-commercial cross-national empirical time-series investigation of human beliefs and values ever executed. Interview Mode of collection: mixed mode Face-to-face interview: CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) Face-to-face interview: PAPI (Paper and Pencil Interview) Telephone interview: CATI (Computer Assisted Telephone Interview) Self-administered questionnaire: CAWI (Computer-Assisted Web Interview) Self-administered questionnaire: Paper In all countries, fieldwork was conducted on the basis of detailed and uniform instructions prepared by the WVS Scientific Committee and WVSA secretariat. The main data collection mode in 1981-2012 was face to face (interviewer-administered) interview with the printed questionnaire. Postal surveys (respondent-administered) have been used in Canada, New Zealanda, Japan, Australia. CAPI and online data collection modes have been introduced first in WVS-6 in 2012-2014. The main data collection mode in WVS 2017-2021 is face to face (interviewer-administered). Several countries employed mixed-mode approach to data collection: USA (CAWI; CATI); Australia and Japan (CAWI; postal survey); Hong Kong SAR (PAPI; CAWI); Malaysia (CAWI; PAPI). The WVS Master Questionnaire is always provided in English and each national survey team has to ensure that the questionnaire was translated into all the languages spoken by 15% or more of the population in the country. A central team monitors the translation process. The target population is defined as: individuals aged 18 (16/17 is acceptable in the countries with such voting age) or older (with no upper age limit), regardless of their nationality, citizenship or language, that have been residing in the [country] within private households for the past 6 months prior to the date of beginning of fieldwork (or in the date of the first visit to the household, in case of random-route selection). The sampling procedures differ from country to country; probability Sample: Multistage Sample Probability Sample, Simple Random Sample Representative single stage or multi-stage sampling of the adult population of the country 18 (16) years old and older was used for the WVS 1981-2020. In 1981-2012, the required sample size for each coutnry was N=1000 or above. In 2017-2021, the sample size was set as effective sample size: 1200 for countries with population over 2 million, 1000 for countries with population less than 2 million. As an exception, few surveys with smaller sample sizes have been accepted into the WVS 1981-2020 through the WVSA's history. Sample design and other relevant information about sampling are reviewed by the WVS Scientific Advisory Committee and approved prior to contracting of fieldwork agency or starting of data collection. The sampling is documented using the Survey Design Form delivered by the national teams which included the description of the sampling frame and each sampling stage as well as the calculation of the planned gross and net sample size to achieve the required effective sample. Additionally, it included the analytical description of the inclusion probabilities of the sampling design that are used to calculate design weights.

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

National Population, Both sexes,18 and more years

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

A total of 5,000 sample members were randomly selected from the adult Australian population who are on the electoral roll. This selection was provided by the Australian Election Commission (AEC) for a one time use only for the purpose of conducting this survey. The sample of 5,000 records was further divided into two batches with batch 01 consisting of 4,211 records and batch 02 consisting of 789 records. This batching was undertaken with the view that batch 01 would be sufficient to achieve the target sample size of n = 1,600 and batch 02 to be used only as a top-up, if required.

The minimum sample size - i.e. the number of completed interviews which are included into the national data-set in the most of countries is 1200. Samples must be representative of all people in the age 18 and older residing within private households in each country, regardless of their nationality, citizenship or language. Whether the sampling method is full probability or a combination of probability and stratified, the national team should aim at obtaining as many Primary Sampling Units (starting points in case of random route sampling) in the sample as possible. It is highly recommended that a number of respondents per a PSU (or a route in case of random route sample) is not exceeding 10 respondents. It is possible to have several Primary Sampling Units per one settlement; they should be located in quite a good distance from each other. WVSA requires a complete explanation of proposed sampling procedures before the beginning of the survey fieldwork.

Mode of data collection

Other [oth]

Research instrument

For each wave, suggestions for questions are solicited by social scientists from all over the world and a final master questionnaire is developed in English. Since the start in 1981 each successive wave has covered a broader range of societies than the previous one. Analysis of the data from each wave has indicated that certain questions tapped interesting and important concepts while others were of little value. This has led to the more useful questions or themes being replicated in future waves while the less useful ones have been dropped making room for new questions.

The questionnaire is translated into the various national languages and in many cases independently translated back to English to check the accuracy of the translation. In most countries, the translated questionnaire is pre-tested to help identify questions for which the translation is problematic. In some cases certain problematic questions are omitted from the national questionnaire.

WVS requires implementation of the common questionnaire fully and faithfully, in all countries included into one wave. Any alteration to the original questionnaire has to be approved by the EC. Omission of no more than a maximum of 12 questions in any given country can be allowed.

Response rate

A total of 1,477 surveys were received as of 16 October 2012 with 1,286 hardcopy surveys and 191 online completes. Completed surveys were 1,477 (29.5%) and the Non response were 3,184 (63.7%)

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.

Background to the European Values Studies
The European Values Study (EVS) is a large-scale, cross-national and longitudinal survey of moral, religious, political and social values. The project was designed to investigate the nature and inter-relationship of value systems, their degree of homogeneity, and the extent to which they are subject to change across time.
To date there have been 3 waves, the first carried out in 1981, the second in 1990 and the third in 1999/2000.
The 1981 survey was carried out in ten member states of the European Community. After the initial fieldwork the survey was carried out in a further 16 countires (Argentina, Australia, Chile, Canada, Finland, Hungary, Iceland, Japan, Malta, Mexico, Norway, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, United States and parts of the Soviet Union).
The 1990 survey was carried out in all European countries as well as the United States and Canada.The third EVS was carried out in Europe.
Further information can be found on the EVS web pages

Northern Ireland European Values Survey, 1999
The aim of this study was the inclusion of Northern Ireland as a fully participant member of the 1999 European Values Study (EVS). The survey was carried out by means of face-to-face interviews with a sample of 1000 randomly-selected adults, representative of the adult population of Northern Ireland. The study was based on an adapted version of the 1999 wave of the EVS, which has now been completed in most countries of western and eastern Europe, including the Republic of Ireland. As in previous EVS studies, the core questions focus on values and attitudes in areas such as religion, ethics, politics, work motivation, family and life-style. In addition to these core elements, however, the Northern Ireland survey also included and additional range of items on aspects of culture and identity peculiar to the island of Ireland. For example, respondents in this survey and the Republic of Ireland EVS wave (not currently held at the UK Data Archive) were questioned about their views on various aspects of the Good Friday Agreement and about their attitudes to national identity. Special care was taken to ensure that these additional questions were relevant within and across the two societies.

These data are also included in European and World Values Survey Four-wave Integrated Data File, 1981-2004, which is available for online analysis and download. Please see SN: 5488 for details.

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: Wave 4, Great Britain, 2009-2010 forms the Great Britain part of Wave 4 of the wider European Values Survey, the fieldwork for which began in some participating countries during 2008. Many of the questions posed replicate previous surveys, thus enabling analysis of change over time on the key dimensions of the EVS. With the addition of the fourth wave, the EVS is a unique source of trend data for the past three decades. The range of potential research questions is very wide, using either this dataset on its own or in conjunction with previous waves, or looking either at Britain alone or in comparison with other European countries. Further information is available from the http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/RES-000-22-3690/read" title ="British participation in the European Values Study">British participation in the European Values Study ESRC Award web page.

These data are also included in European Values Study: Wave 4, 2008, which is available for online analysis and download via ZACAT. Please see SN 6539 at the UK Data Archive for details.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.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. Background to the European Values Studies The European Values Study (EVS) is a large-scale, cross-national and longitudinal survey of moral, religious, political and social values. The project was designed to investigate the nature and inter-relationship of value systems, their degree of homogeneity, and the extent to which they are subject to change across time. To date there have been 3 waves, the first carried out in 1981, the second in 1990 and the third in 1999/2000. The 1981 survey was carried out in ten member states of the European Community. After the initial fieldwork the survey was carried out in a further 16 countires (Argentina, Australia, Chile, Canada, Finland, Hungary, Iceland, Japan, Malta, Mexico, Norway, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, United States and parts of the Soviet Union). The 1990 survey was carried out in all European countries as well as the United States and Canada.The third EVS was carried out in Europe. Further information can be found on the EVS web pages Northern Ireland European Values Survey, 1999 The aim of this study was the inclusion of Northern Ireland as a fully participant member of the 1999 European Values Study (EVS). The survey was carried out by means of face-to-face interviews with a sample of 1000 randomly-selected adults, representative of the adult population of Northern Ireland. The study was based on an adapted version of the 1999 wave of the EVS, which has now been completed in most countries of western and eastern Europe, including the Republic of Ireland. As in previous EVS studies, the core questions focus on values and attitudes in areas such as religion, ethics, politics, work motivation, family and life-style. In addition to these core elements, however, the Northern Ireland survey also included and additional range of items on aspects of culture and identity peculiar to the island of Ireland. For example, respondents in this survey and the Republic of Ireland EVS wave (not currently held at the UK Data Archive) were questioned about their views on various aspects of the Good Friday Agreement and about their attitudes to national identity. Special care was taken to ensure that these additional questions were relevant within and across the two societies. These data are also included in European and World Values Survey Four-wave Integrated Data File, 1981-2004, which is available for online analysis and download. Please see SN: 5488 for details.

This data set contains the data used for the analysis of the research article “Boosting Survey Response Rates by Announcing Undefined Lottery Prizes in Invitation Email Subject Lines: Evidence from a Global Randomized Controlled Trial”. It comprises data from a randomized, controlled trial using a multicultural, multinational sample of 5,128 key staff members working for 2,527 microfinance institutions (MFIs) located in 124 countries; as well as all control variables used in the analysis included in the paper and its online appendix (e.g., location of an MFI in a country that is a member of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and two culture scores constructed by Beugelsdijk and Welzel, 2018, using data from the European Value Studies and World Values Surveys). Primary data was collected by means of a personalized invitation email, which included a link to an online survey. The online survey was conducted in 10 languages including English and ran from April to June 2016.

The Internet has played important roles in driving political changes around the world. Why does it help to topple political regimes in some places but improve the quality of governance in others? We found internet usage in general leads to citizens’ distrusting in political institutions. Different political environments, however, can condition such trust-eroding impacts of the Internet in significantly different ways. A democracy enables citizens to connect their online behaviors and offline expression and organization, releasing political discontent while facilitating state-society communication. On the contrary, by restricting various forms of off-line expression, authoritarian regimes drive internet-active citizens’ discontent and distrust to higher levels. We use the World Values Survey data to establish these different mechanisms across democracies and authoritarian systems. Entropy balancing shows our findings to be highly robust.

This study investigates how information environment quality (IEQ), encompassing misinformation, online censorship, and cybersecurity capacities, shapes citizens’ attitudes toward democracy and digital freedoms. Employing multilevel models with World Values Survey and Digital Society Project data, we find that support for digital democracy aligns with broader democratic values. Furthermore, the findings reveal an indirect pathway: while IEQ dimensions do not directly impact individuals’ general democratic support, a significant indirect pathway was identified: IEQ influences general democratic support by first affecting individuals' attitudes toward digital democracy. Reduced online censorship and enhanced cybersecurity capacities robustly strengthen citizens’ support for digital democracy. However, a counterintuitive but statistically insignificant result is that less misinformation is linked to weaker support for digital democracy attitudes. These complex patterns underscore the importance of safeguarding online civil liberties and maintaining an open information environment to reinforce digital and general democratic values.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.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: Wave 4, Great Britain, 2009-2010 forms the Great Britain part of Wave 4 of the wider European Values Survey, the fieldwork for which began in some participating countries during 2008. Many of the questions posed replicate previous surveys, thus enabling analysis of change over time on the key dimensions of the EVS. With the addition of the fourth wave, the EVS is a unique source of trend data for the past three decades. The range of potential research questions is very wide, using either this dataset on its own or in conjunction with previous waves, or looking either at Britain alone or in comparison with other European countries. Further information is available from the British participation in the European Values Study ESRC Award web page. These data are also included in European Values Study: Wave 4, 2008, which is available for online analysis and download via ZACAT. Please see SN 6539 at the UK Data Archive for details. Main Topics: The study particularly focuses on questions around family, work, religious, political and societal values. Other topics include national identity, tolerance, social solidarity and life satisfaction. The questionnaire also contains items on issues of personal and civic ethics (from smoking indoors to suicide). Multi-stage stratified random sample Face-to-face interview 2009 2010 ABORTION AGE ATTITUDES BEREAVEMENT CARE OF DEPENDANTS CHILDREN CHURCH AND STATE CITIZENSHIP CIVIL AND POLITICAL... COHABITATION COMMUNITY ACTION DECISION MAKING DEMOCRACY DEMONSTRATIONS PROT... DISCRIMINATION DIVORCE ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC SYSTEMS EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND EDUCATIONAL LEVELS EMPLOYMENT ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRA... ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EUROPEAN UNION EUTHANASIA Environment and con... FAMILY LIFE FAMILY ROLES FATHER S OCCUPATION... FATHER S PLACE OF B... FATHERS FRIENDS Family life and mar... GENDER GOVERNMENT ROLE GROUPS Great Britain HAPPINESS HEALTH HEALTH STATUS HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLDS HUMAN RIGHTS ILL HEALTH IMMIGRANTS IMMIGRATION JOB SATISFACTION JOB SECURITY LEISURE TIME LIFE EVENTS LIFE SATISFACTION LIVING CONDITIONS LOCUS OF CONTROL Labour and employment MARITAL HISTORY MARITAL STATUS MARRIAGE MEMBERSHIP MORAL BEHAVIOUR MORAL CONCEPTS MORAL VALUES MOTHER S OCCUPATION... MOTHER S PLACE OF B... MOTHERS NATIONAL IDENTITY NATIONAL PRIDE NATIONALITY NEIGHBOURS OCCUPATIONAL STATUS OCCUPATIONS ORGANIZATIONS PARENT CHILD RELATI... PARENTAL ROLE PLACE OF BIRTH POLITICAL ACTION POLITICAL ALLEGIANCE POLITICAL ATTITUDES POLITICAL INTEREST POLITICAL PARTICIPA... POLITICAL SYSTEMS PRAYER PROFESSIONAL ASSOCI... Political behaviour... QUALIFICATIONS READING ACTIVITY RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION RELIGIOUS ATTENDANCE RELIGIOUS BELIEFS RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES RELIGIOUS DOCTRINES RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION RELIGIOUS PRACTICE Religion and values SOCIAL ACTIVITIES L... SOCIAL ATTITUDES SOCIAL CHANGE SOCIAL INEQUALITY SOCIAL PARTICIPATION SOCIAL PROBLEMS SOCIAL SECURITY BEN... SOCIAL SYSTEMS SOCIO ECONOMIC STATUS SPIRITUALISM SPOUSES STATE RESPONSIBILITY STATUS IN EMPLOYMENT SUICIDE SUPERNATURAL SUPERSTITION SUPERVISORY STATUS Social behaviour an... Social conditions a... TERRORISM TRADE UNION MEMBERSHIP TRUST TRUST IN GOVERNMENT UNEMPLOYMENT UNWAGED WORKERS VOLUNTARY WORK VOTING BEHAVIOUR WOMEN S ORGANIZATIONS WOMEN S RIGHTS WOMEN S ROLE WORK ATTITUDE WORKING CONDITIONS

Replication data for the main results in the article "Educating Democrats or Autocrats? The regime-conditional effect of education on support for democracy", published in Political Studies. The data consist of survey data from the European Value Study and the World Value Study, known together as the Integrated Values Surveys (IVS). See the published article and supplemental appendix (online) for further details.