4th EVS wave 2008 (ZA4800)

Current dataset version: Release v3.0.0 as of November 2011, doi:10.4232/1.11004
(for information on each National Dataset see the overview (41 KB))

The fourth wave has a persistent focus on a broad range of values. Questions with respect to family, work, religious, political and societal values are highly comparable with those in earlier waves (1981, 1990 and 1999). This longitudinal scope of the study makes it possible to study trends in time. In each country, 1,500 persons were interviewed personally (face-to-face). A completely random sample was drawn in each country.
Beside the Integrated Dataset the National Datasets are provided including additional country-specific variables for national rather than multinational use. The documentation created for this EVS wave includes both the guidelines and standards developed to produce comparable data and detailed information on peculiarities of the National Datasets on study and variable level.

EVS Website: For comprehensive information on the EVS 2008

The EVS Website covers comprehensive documentation on the EVS 2008 wave. It includes a method report on the Integrated and every National Dataset, the master and field questionnaires in the different language versions, and bilingual variable reports (English/original language) on the Integrated and every national dataset. Moreover it provides general information on the origin of the EVS project.

Online study and variable descriptions - For comparisons on study and variable level

 

ACCESS to data and documentation

The EVS 2008 covers all countries of Europe, from Iceland to Azerbaijan and from Portugal to Norway, with a population of 100,000 and more. In total, the fieldwork is administered in 47 countries/regions:

European Values Study 1981-2008: Participating countries

The full data release includes data for 47 countries/regions Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium,Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Republic of Moldova, Republic of Montenegro, The Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and Ukraine.

ZACAT: For easy access to data and documentation

ZACAT: The Integrated Dataset and the 47 National Datasets of the full release are provided in ZACAT for retrieval purposes, data exploration and free download. Trend information across waves and original question text are provided along with reports describing the data on study and variable level.

 

Errata report

For an overview of Version History & Errata, please go to the GESIS Data Catalogue containing the Study Descriptions of every EVS dataset with information about updates, errors and error corrections (patches) for the Integrated and every national dataset.

 

EVS Repository: For access to publications (partly linked to data)

Publications based on EVS data are offered. A growing part of these publications is enhanced with direct links to the dataset, variables, and syntax codes of the concepts used EVS Repository