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European Values Study and World Values Survey: Substantive Findings and Methodological Challenges in Value Research |
| Coordinator 1 | Dr Gergely Rosta (European Values Study/Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary) |
| Coordinator 2 | Dr Kseniya Kizilova (World Values Survey Association, Austria) |
Session Details
The European Values Study (EVS) and the World Values Survey (WVS) are two large-scale comparative time-series survey research programs studying people’s values, norms and beliefs. Since 1981, they have jointly carried out representative national surveys in over 120 countries and societies, covering 92 percent of the world’s population. This data is an invaluable source for a global network of scholars and international development agencies. Over the years, the EVS and the WVS have proven the importance of population value study and have demonstrated that people’s beliefs play a key role in economic development, the emergence and flourishing of democratic institutions, the rise of gender equality, and the extent to which societies have effective government.
We welcome submissions based on EVS/WVS data addressing substantive and/or methodological aspects of value research.
The joint EVS-WVS dataset (2017-2022) and the EVS-WVS trend file (1981-2022) allow social and political sciences to broaden and deepen their analyses. This session invites papers that make use of the EVS/WVS data, either solely or in combination with other types of data, to address a broad scope of issues, including political culture and political attitudes, support for democracy and political participation, perceptions of gender equality and moral values, identity and trust, civil society, corruption, solidarity, and migration, and more.
We also invite papers addressing the projects’ methodological aspects, including challenges and limitations such as reliability and equivalence of the scales and indicators employed, non-responses, combining self- and interviewer-administered modes, among others. The panel particularly invites papers that compare findings collected via different survey methods in the same countries, allowing to estimate the reliability of online surveys as well as to discuss the challenges posed by changing modes of data collection.
