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The European Values Study and its metadata: stock taking and the future

The European Values Study and its metadata: stock taking and the future. Ruud Luijkx Tilburg University The Netherlands. European Values Study. A longitudinal and international comparative survey research project on basic human values www.europeanvaluesstudy.eu. Short history.

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The European Values Study and its metadata: stock taking and the future

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  1. The European Values Study and its metadata: stock taking and the future Ruud Luijkx Tilburg University The Netherlands

  2. European Values Study A longitudinal and international comparative survey research project on basic human values www.europeanvaluesstudy.eu

  3. Short history • First wave: 1981 • European Countries: France, Great Britain, West Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Iceland • Non-European Countries: Canada, USA

  4. Original Research Questions • Do Europeans share common values? • Are values changing? • Do Christian values continue to permeate European life and culture? • Is a coherent alternative meaning system replacing that of Christianity? • What are the implications for European unity?

  5. religion morality politics society family & marriage sexuality education work leisure time EVS questionnaire subjects

  6. Second/Third wave 1990/199 • Modified replication of 1981 • More countries from Western and Eastern Europe • In 1999 also new issues: • solidarity • social capital • democracy • work ethics

  7. Fourth wave 2008 • Largely a replication of 1999 • All countries of Europe (with more than 100,000 inhabitants) • Progress of the fieldwork • More emphasis on high quality socio-demographic (background) variables • High quality translation of the questionnaires

  8. Our colleagues: the World Values Survey • “third wave” (1995-1998) • “fourth wave” (2000-2004) • “fifth wave”(2005-2007) • Overlap in the questionnaire is about 60%

  9. Data dissemmination • Through data archives • GESIS is the primary data archive for EVS • 1981 originally at UKDA • 1990 at DANS • For/in 1981/1990 only data and questionnaires (later in pdf-format)

  10. (Meta) data 1999 • GESIS Codebook explorer • GESIS ZACAT • Study description • Bibliographic citation • Study scope • Methodology and processing • Data-access • Data Files Description

  11. (Meta) data 1999—GESIS ZACAT • Comparative questions (master questionnaire) with 1981 and 1990 • Original question wordings for all languages: question texts, answer categories, and show cards of the questionnaires • Explanatory notes concerning differences between national and master questionnaire, difficulties arising from translation, and additional questions used in the national questionnaires were added. • http://zacat.gesis.org/webview/index.jsp

  12. Harmonising different waves • In 2006 a harmonised data set was released after (post hoc) harmonisation of all Value Surveys since 1981 (ASEP/JDS, EVS-Tilburg, GESIS) • Goals: • Make all Value Surveys available on line • Facilitate simple analyses • Disseminate all documentation • Web sites where data are available: • EVS www.europeanvaluesstudy.eu • ASEP/JDS www.jdsurvey.net • WVS (Enter from WVS ) • ALSO HARMONISING META DATA

  13. Meta data 2008 • Improved presentation on ZACAT • Including more notes from the translation process • DatapluS: Repositories for Enhanced Survey Publications

  14. DatapluS Funded by Surf Foundation Create 2 subject repositories with enriched publications • Besides European Values Study (EVS), also Dutch Parliamentary Election Study • Enriched with: • Syntax codes of constructs, concepts • Links to (meta) data (at the variable level)—persistent identifier issue

  15. Work Packages • 1,2: INPUT: Enhanced Publications (EVS, DPES) • 3: A Sustainable Library Infrastructure for Enhanced Publications: LIS (Tilburg University) Library Twente (presentation Thomas Place) • 4: DDI 3.0 Enhanced Publication Editor: CentERdata (Tilburg University); presentation Bart van Nieuwburg • 5: Linking to (Meta) Data Stored in Data Archives (GESIS, DANS)

  16. Deliverables • 2 subject repositories with enriched publications • Enhanced Publication Editor • Infrastructure compatible with existing repository systems

  17. Future issues • Make more meta data available in a more coordinated way • Use version control of (meta)data—also cross linking data releases • Further integration of publications and data • Integration of data from different sources (macro indicators)

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