European Values Study

EVS2017: data release postponement

Due to the COVID-19 situation: third-prelease in May and final release in October 2020
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A paper on French values by Pierre Brechon

Released by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
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EVS Bibliography – New Edition

Over 2.100 publications based on EVS data
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EVS2017: New book published

“Living apart together? Czechia and Slovakia through the lense of value development after 1991”
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Mid-term Conference of ESA RN21: “Quantitative Approaches to Analyzing Social Change”

Lucerne, 8-10 October 2020. Deadline extended to May 31st
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Summer School “Europe’s Unity in Value Diversity”

One-week course connecting theory and empirical strategy to address ongoing societal questions using the EVS
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New members of the Board of the EVS Foundation

Ruud Luijks, Vera Lomazzi, and Markus Quandt join the EVS Foundation
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EVS Regional meeting in Sofia

Workshop in preparation of the International Academic Conference “Valuation of Values in South-Eastern Europe”
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Urgent message from GESIS-DAS

The Data Catalogue and the repository SowiDataNet|datorium have been taken offline after a hacker attack.
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EVS Workshop in Tbilisi

Presentations and videos are now available
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Methodology, Data, Documentation

EVS covers a period spanning from 1981 to 2017 with a core questionnaire repeated over time surveyed on representative samples of the resident adult population in each country. Over time, the EVS methodology has been strengthened to bring the data quality to high level. Each national survey conforms to guidelines designed to ensure quality and consistency.
EVS data and documentation are available free of charge. They are stored in the Data Archive for the Social Sciences of GESIS – Leibniz Institute in Cologne, Germany.

Publications, Dissemination, Education

EVS data are used as empirical source for a large number of publications in academic journals and books in several fields of research. Alongside the development of up-to-date publications on the study of values in European societies, The European Values Study disseminates its results through many international and national activties, such as conferences, seminars, and workshops. Furthemore, different tools have been proposed for educational purposes.