Search in: EVS 2008 - Guidelines and Method Reports

Documentation on the Integrated and national datasets of EVS 2008 (full data release, v.2.0.0)  

• Guidelines and Recommendations (updated documentation indexed 21.12.2010)
• Method Report on the Integrated Dataset (updated documentation indexed 21.12.2010)
• Method Reports on the 47 national datasets (updated and new documents indexed 21.12.2010)

The data of the EVS surveys can be obtained at the GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences in Cologne through their online download and analysis facility ZACAT.

Notes:

• The producers of the documentation (European Values Study and GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences) bear no responsibility for the interpretation of the data.
• Recommendations for bibliographic citations of research data and study related documents in publications.

Online study information about EVS 2008

• Information on the origin and outcomes of the national surveys of EVS 2008 can also be searched via the Online study description of EVS 2008.

Online variable information for all EVS waves 1981-2008 can be searched via

• Online variable overview allowing for comparisons of trend variables of all EVS waves. In addition, comparisons of original question texts across the waves 1999/2000 and 2008 are supported.
• Question text retrieval allowing for full-text searches in the English Master Questionnaire and in variable reports (partly bilingual) of both integrated and national datasets.