European Values Study

Full release of the EVS2017 Integrated Datasets

Full data release and documentation now available.
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Elected New Chairs of the Leading Bodies of EVS

New Chair of the Executive Committee: Ruud Luijkx. New Chair of the Theory Group: Edurne Bartolome Peral
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Vera Lomazzi presented EVS2017 at ESA-RN21

Keynote speech on cross-cultural comparability, survey research synergies and innovation in EVS2017
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EVS By-Elections

New members join the Theory Group, Methodology Group and Executive Committee of EVS
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EVALUE: European Values in Education

Teaching materials for secondary schools based on EVS data
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Values and CoronaVirus Crisis

Stability or change of public opinion and values during the coronavirus crisis? Exploring Dutch longitudinal panel data
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EVS2017: What has been done to achieve good data quality?

Transparency, Review rounds, Documentation, Pre-releases
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EVS-WVS Operational meeting

Agreed workflows, procedures and standards. Joint EVS-WVS core dataset expected in October 2020
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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.