EVS Trend File 1981-2017

• Main Authors: Gedeshi, Ilir, Zulehner, Paul M., Rotman, David, Titarenko, Larissa, Billiet, Jaak, Dobbelaere, Karel, Kerkhofs, Jan, Swyngedouw, Marc, Voyé, Liliane, Fotev, Georgy, Marinov, Mario, Raichev, Andrei, Stoychev, Kancho, Kielty, J.F., Nevitte, Neil, Baloban, Josip, Baloban, Stjepan, Roudometof, Victor, Rabusic, Ladislav, Rehak, Jan, Gundelach, Peter, Petersen, E., Riis, Ole, Röhme, Nils, Saar, Andrus
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Canada; Norway; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14021; https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA7503?lang=de; https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA7503?lang=en

The European Values Study is a large-scale, cross-national and longitudinal survey research program on how Europeans think about family, work, religion, politics, and society. Repeated every nine years in an increasing number of countries, the survey provides insights into the ideas, beliefs, preferences, attitudes, values, and opinions of citizens all over Europe. The EVS Trend File 1981-2017 is constructed from the five EVS waves and covers almost 40 years. In altogether 160 surveys, more than 224.000 respondents from 48 countries/regions were interviewed. It is based on the updated data of the EVS Longitudinal Data File 1981-2008 (v.3.1.0) and the current EVS 2017 Integrated Dataset (v.5.0.0). It follows a new approach agreed with WVS to transform the former large EVS and WVS longitudinal trend files into leaner and easier-to-use files. Both EVS and WVS trend files are based on the updated Common EVS/WVS Dictionary (v.2021). It contains only those variables/questions that have been replicated by EVS and/or WVS since the early 1980s. The EVS Trend File and the World Values Survey Trend File (1981-2022) can be easily merged. The resulting the Integrated Values Surveys 1981-2022 data file contains the five waves of the EVS and the seven waves of the WVS. 1. Perceptions of life: importance of family, friends and acquaintances, leisure time, politics, work, and religion; feeling of happiness; self-assessment of state of health; feelings: ever felt excited or interested, restless, proud because of compliments, very lonely or remote from other people, pleased about having accomplishes something, bored, on top of the world, very unhappy, that things were going your way, upset because of criticism; memberships and voluntary work (unpaid work) in: social welfare services, religious or church organisations, education, art, music or cultural activities, labour unions, political parties, local political actions, human rights, conservation, the environment, ecology, animal rights, professional associations, youth work, ...