2nd EVS wave 1990 (ZA No. 4460)

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

Access to data and documentation

• 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 the 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 description, Master Questionnaire, Report of the integrated data set
• National questionnaires (Q- see the table below).

Supplemental documentation provided on the EVS web site

• General information on the 2st 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)

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