1st EVS wave 1981 (ZA No. 4438)

Current dataset version: Release 2, May 2007
Documentation: Update, February 2008

ZACAT supports full online access to the data and documentation of the EVS (for more information see Data access).
- As a special documentation offer it allows to compare the wordings of functional equivalent questions from the master questionnaires of all three waves. The link list "Comparative Questions 1981-1999/2000" is available in the integrated datasets for each variable used in more than one wave.
Study descriptions, Master Questionnaire, Report of the integrated dataset
National questionnaires (Q - see the table below).

General information on the 1st EVS wave (History, Methods and Sample, Participating Countries)
EVS variable list 1999, 1990 and 1981 - Scheme with variables in EVS datafiles (Link "Compare document")
Codebook for the Values Surveys (WVS/EVS) - Link "Additional documents"
- Integrated questionnaire with the entire list of variables, along with the label, question text, categories, equivalent name in the different waves (PDF file).
- Equivalences tables which inform about the correspondence of variable names between each wave and the integrated data set (PDF file)
Publications - Overview of new publications, EVS Series, other publications, and archive publications
Measuring and Comparing Values in 16 Countries of the Western World - Documentation of the European Values Study 1981-1990 in Europe and North Amerika, Loek Halman and Astrid Vloet, WORC report 94.11.001, November 1994. (PDF file)