EVS - European Values Study 1999 - Integrated Dataset

• Main Authors: Zulehner, Paul M., Rotman, David, Titarenko, Larissa, Billiet, Jaak, Dobbelaere, Karel, Bawin, Bernadette, Kerkhofs, Jan, Fotev, Georgy, Marinov, Mario, Baloban, Josip, Rabusic, Ladislav, Gundelach, Peter, Saar, Andrus, Pehkonen, Juhani, Tchernia, Jean-François, Puranen, Bi, Jagodzinski, Wolfgang, Harding, Stephen, Anheier, Helmut, Gari, Aikaterini, Georgas, James, Mylonas, Kostas, Tomka, Miklós, Jónsson, Fridrik H., Olafsson, Stefan, Fahey, Tony, Sinnott, Richard, Gubert, Renzo, Zepa, Brigita, Alishauskiene, Rasa, Juknevicius, Stanislovas, Estgen, Pol, Legrand, Michel, Abela, Anthony M., Arts, Wil A., Hagenaars, Jacques A.P., Halman, Loek, Luijkx, Ruud, Hayes, Bernadette C., Jasinska-Kania, Aleksandra, Konieczna, Joanna, Marody, Mira, Cabral, Manuel Villaverde, Ramos, Alice, Vala, Jorge, Pop, Lucien, Voicu, Malina, Zamfir, Catalin, Bashkirova, Elena, Kusá, Zuzana, Malnar, Brina, Tos, Niko, Elzo, Javier, Orizo, Francisco Andrés, Pettersson, Thorleif, Esmer, Yilmaz, Balakireva, Olga
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4232/1.10789; https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA3811?lang=en; https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA3811?lang=de

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. 1. Common question program: leisure time: importance of areas of life; feeling of happiness; memberships and honorary activities in clubs, parties, organizations, citizens´ initiatives and occupation organizations; interactions in leisure time; tolerance regarding minorities, those of other beliefs and foreigners; interhuman trust; self-effectiveness (scale); general contentment with life (scale). working world: importance of selected characteristics of occupational work (scale); personal employment; general work satisfaction (scale); self-determination at work (scale); work ethic (scale); attitude to achievement-based pay and following work instructions without criticism; priority of nationals over foreigners as well as men over women with shortage of jobs; assumed priority of individual or social reasons for the situation of economic need of individuals; freedom of the unemployed to reject a job offer (scale). politics: party preference; attitude to foreign workers in one´s country; fear of the future; assimilation and integration of immigrants; concept of a just society (more welfare state or liberalism, scale); interest in political news in the media; individualism and thinking of the community; interest in politics; political participation; self-assessment on a left-right continuum (scale); self-responsibility or governmental provision (scale); attitude to competition freedom and entrepreneur freedom (scale); satisfaction with ...