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Ambiguity in the Item Wording, Ambiguity in the Respondents’ Comprehension?

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An experiment included in the Italian joint edition of the European Value Study-World Values Survey 2017 has studied the working of the item “immigrants/foreign workers” in the social distance scale. Since the item could appear ambiguous as it refers to two different categories of people – i.e., foreign workers are a subgroup of immigrants –  the authors tried to answer the following research question: Do the respondents’ answers refer to immigrants? To foreign workers? To both?

By assigning respondents to three different formulations of the item (“immigrants/foreign workers”, “immigrants”, “foreign workers”), the results suggests that ambiguity in the item wording does not necessarily mean ambiguity in the respondents’ comprehension.

Indeed, at least in the Italian context, people react to the “immigrants” and “immigrants/foreign workers” items in a similar way. Thus, the results of the experiment provide some useful suggestions for reviewing the questionnaire for EVS, WVS, and other surveys using the immigrants/foreign workers item in the social distance scale. See Riccardo Ladini and Ferruccio Biolcati’s article “Ambiguity in the Item Wording, Ambiguity in the Respondents’ Comprehension? An Experiment on the ‘Immigrants/Foreign Workers’ Social Distance Item in Values Surveys” published in Survey Research Methods (Open Access).

New Book by the EVS Croatian team

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The Croatian team recently published a new publication based on EVS data addressing the changes in the value system in democratic Croatia.

Promjene vrijednosnog sustava u demokratskoj Hrvatskoj Josip Baloban, Silvija Migles, Krunoslav Nikodem and Siniša Zrinščak (eds.) 2023. Zagreb: Katolički bogoslovni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu and Kršćanska sadašnjost. ISBN: 978-953-6420-41-4; ISBN: 978-953-11-1757-9. 

The book is in Croatian but the entire Foreword is in English.: https://www.kbf.unizg.hr/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/vrijednosni-sustavi.pdf. 

Part of the book is also listed here.

EVS-WVS Sessions at ESRA23

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The Eruoepan Values Study and the Wrold Values Survey continue their cooperation also in dissemination activities. The two research group proposed the session “European Values Study and World Values Survey: Exploring New Survey Findings and Addressing Methodological Challenges”.

The session, organized by Vera Lomazzi, Kseniya Kizilova, and Ruud Luijkx, welcomed proposals addressing substantive and/or methodological aspects of value research making use of the EVS/WVS data -solely or in combination with other types of data- to address a broad scope of issues, including political culture and political attitudes, support for democracy and political participation, perceptions of gender equality and moral values, identity and trust, civil society, corruption, solidarity, and migration among the others.
The session also invited papers addressing the projects’ methodological aspects, including challenges and limitations such as reliability and equivalence of employed scales and indicators, non-responses, combining self- and interviewer-administered mode and other. The panel particularly invites papers comparing findings collected via different survey methods in the same countries allowing to estimate the reliability of online surveys and discuss challenges and prospects of their combined use.

Following the peer review process, selected authors will present their value research in three sub-sessions:

Wednesday 19 July, 09:00 – 10:30

Misogynistic Gender Ideologies and the Participation in Clubs Sports: A Comparative Perspective based on the World Value Survey and the European Values Study – Mr Simon Lütkewitte (Bielefeld University )

The Gender Value Gap: Evidence from the World Values Survey – Dr Natalia Soboleva (LCSR HSE University), Dr Plamen Akaliyski (University Carlos III of Madrid), Professor Michael Minkov (Varna University of Management)

European Attitudes towards Same-sex Parenting and Adoption by Same-sex Couples – Dr Ivett Szalma (Centre for Social Sciences), Professor Judit Takács (Centre for Social Sciences)

Double Trouble? The Interplay of Political Ideology and Religiosity in Shaping Attitudes towards Abortion in a Comparative Global Perspective – Dr Giulia Maria Dotti-Sani (University of Milan), Dr Jessica Rosco (University of Milan)

Wednesday 19 July, 11:00 – 12:30

Co-nationals, first! How national identity and perceived threats matter in native favouritism – Dr Simona Guglielmi (University of Milan)

Postmaterialism and Value Change: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of the US, Japan, Turkey and China – Professor Ming-Chang Tsai (Academia Sinica)

Attitudinal Polarization across Europe – Dr Anna Pless (Goethe-University Frankfurt), Dr Yassine Khoudja (Goethe-University Frankfurt), Professor Daniela Grunow (Goethe-University Frankfurt)

Thursday 20 July, 9:00 – 10:30

Separating cross-cultural and cross-national: an investigation of moral differences using the European Values Study – Miss Anastasiia Volkova (University of Helsinki)

Different Methods, But Same Results? A Comparison of Causal Forest and Propensity Score Matching on Health Disparities Between Natives And Migrants – Mr Manuel Holz (TU Chemnitz), Ms Sandra Jaworeck (TU Chemnitz)

Religiosity, religious context, and intolerance: A cross-survey comparison – Ms Andrea Turković (Università degli Studi di Milano Statale)

Do Mode and Design Matter? Comparability and Representation between Face-to-Face and different designs of Push-to-Web using substantive research questions – Dr Michael Ochsner (FORS), Dr Jessica M. E. Herzing (University of Berne), Mr Alexandre Pollien (FORS), Dr Michèle Ernst Staehli (FORS)

NEW VERSION OF THE EVS BIBLIOGRAPHY AVAILABLE

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An updated version of the EVS Bibliography is now online. 

It includes 3212 entries:

1755 Journal Articles

353 Books

716 Book Chapters

78 Conference Papers

71 Dissertations

64 Master’s Theses

155 Working Papers

20 Miscellaneous (Newspapers etc.)

Is your EVS publication not in the EVS Bibliography?

Please send us an email at evs.bibliography@gesis.org with the bibliographic information on your publication (title, author(s), year of publication, journal or publisher, online resources). Also include information on the specific EVS data that you used, preferably by giving the title and the DOI of the dataset. If you can offer additional information on variable names, countries and time points, we would appreciate.

Information about the bibliographic citation of EVS data can be found here.

Final releases

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Joint EVS/WVS Dataset 2017-2022, EVS Trend File 1981-2017, and Integrated Values Surveys 1981-2022

The Joint EVS/WVS Dataset includes the joint items that define the Common Core of the EVS 2017 and WVS7 questionnaires. In altogether 100 surveys more than 150.000 respondents from 90 countries/regions were interviewed between 2017 and 2022.

The EVS trend files are constructed from the five EVS waves and cover almost 40 years. In altogether 160 surveys more than 224.000 respondents from 49 countries/regions were interviewed.

The Integrated Values Surveys (IVS) 1981-2022 can be constructed by merging the EVS Trend File 1981-2017 (doi:10.4232/1.14021) and the WVS Trend File 1981-2022 doi:10.14281/18241.23. It is based on the Common EVS/WVS Dictionary (2021) and includes 450 surveys from 115 countries/territories.

The data and documentation are accessible through the GESIS data collection at GESIS- Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.

Renewal of EVS bodies

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In December 2022 the EVS renewed the bodies that will lead the survey programme during the term 2023-2027.

Composition of the Executive Committee 2023-2027:

Chair: Ruud Luijkx (also representative of the EVS Foundation)

Secretary: Vera Lomazzi (also co-editor of the European Values Series Book)

Members: Edurne Bartolomé Peral, Gudbjörg Andrea Jonsdottir, Alice Ramos, Markus Quandt (Representative of the Data Archive), Michael Ochsner (Chair of the Scientific Committee).

Invited members: Antoanela Petkovska (Chair of the EVS Council), Inge Sieben (co-editor of the European Values Series Book)

Composition of the Scientific Committee 2023-2027:

Chair: Michael Ochsner 

Deputy Chair: Claudiu Tufis

Member: Ferruccio Biolcati , Stefan Dahlberg, Frédéric Gonthier, Bart Meuleman, Morten Frederiksen , Gergely Rosta, Joanna Konieczna-Sałamatin, Beatrice Elena Chromková Manea, Quita Muis, Reinhard Pollak

Chair of the Council of National Program Directors 2023-2027: Antoanela Petkovska (North Macedonia)

Information on the organization and functioning of the EVS is available here.

EVS-WVS session at ESRA23

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The 10th Conference of the European Survey Research Association will take place 17th-21st July 2023 in Milan, Italy.

The European Values Study and the World Values Survey organize the joint session “European Values Study and World Values Survey: Exploring New Survey Findings and Addressing Methodological Challenges” :

The European Values Study (EVS) and the World Values Survey (WVS) are two large-scale comparative time-series survey research programs studying people’s values, norms and beliefs. Since 1981, these programmes have jointly carried out representative national surveys in over 120 countries and societies containing 92 percent of the world’s population representing an invaluable data source for a global network of scholars and international development agencies, including the World Bank, the UNDP, the WHO, regional development banks etc.
Over the years, the EVS and the WVS have proven the importance of population value study and have demonstrated that people’s beliefs play a key role in economic development, emergence and flourishing of democratic institutions, rise of gender equality, and the extent to which societies have effective government.
We welcome submissions based on EVS/WVS data addressing substantive and/or methodological aspects of value research.
The recently published joint EVS-WVS dataset (2017-2022) and the EVS-WVS trend file (1981-2022) allow social and political sciences to broaden and deepen their analysis. Present session invites papers which make use of the EVS/WVS data -solely or in combination with other types of data- to address a broad scope of issues, including political culture and political attitudes, support for democracy and political participation, perceptions of gender equality and moral values, identity and trust, civil society, corruption, solidarity, and migration among the others.
We also invite papers addressing the projects’ methodological aspects, including challenges and limitations such as reliability and equivalence of employed scales and indicators, non-responses, combining self- and interviewer-administered mode and other. The panel particularly invites papers comparing findings collected via different survey methods in the same countries allowing to estimate the reliability of online surveys and discuss challenges and prospects of their combined use.

Deadline for abstracts submission: 20.12.2022

For details please consult ESRA webpage

CfP Session on Values at IPSA23

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27th World Congress of Political Science will take place on 15-19 JULY 2023 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Among the several sessions proposed, Edurne Bartolome Peral (EVS) and Kseniya Kizilova (WVS) organize a session on “Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Comparative Study of Values“.

Description

Values are at the core of citizens´ vision of right and wrong and are at the origins of attitudes and human behaviour. They are deeply interrelated with material conditions and value change has explained relevant variations across time and across societies on human visions and its crystallization into policies, social processes and moral principles. For decades, European Values Study (EVS) and World Values Survey (WVS) have been tracking the effect of social modernization and human development (including political, scientific, and technological changes) which have transformed human value priorities. Since 1981, these programmes have jointly carried out representative national surveys in over 120 countries and societies containing 92 percent of the world’s population representing an invaluable data source for a global network of scholars, Governments, policy makers and international development agencies. Over the years, the EVS and the WVS have proven the importance of population value study and how modernization processes and human development have led through history to a set of transformations in human mindset, and how value structures change according to a range of value preferences and attitudes. Moreover, research on values demonstrates that people’s beliefs play a key role in economic development, emergence and flourishing of democratic institutions, rise of gender equality, and the extent to which societies have effective government.
We welcome submissions based on EVS/WVS data addressing substantive and/or methodological aspects of value research. Recent joint EVS-WVS dataset (2017-2022) and the EVS-WVS trend file (1981-2022) allow social and political sciences to broaden and deepen their analysis. We invite papers which make use of the EVS/WVS data -solely or in combination with other types of data- to address a broad scope of issues, including political culture and political attitudes, support for democracy and political participation, perceptions of gender equality and moral values, identity and trust, civil society, corruption, solidarity, and migration among the others. We also invite papers addressing the projects’ methodological aspects, including challenges and limitations such as reliability and equivalence of employed scales and indicators, non-responses, combining self- and interviewer-administered mode and other.

Click here to submit your abstract by 18.01.2023.

Detailed information is provided on IPSA website.

Past, Present and Future of the study of European Values

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The venue: University of Bergamo, Italy

The Italian team of the European Values Study/World Values Survey hosts the annual General Assembly of EVS, the meeting of the Liaison Committee of EVS-WVS, and the international scientific event “European Values and the Values of Europe” alongside the Third Italian conference of EVS/WVS data users “Crisis after Crisis: Values Change in Italy”.

The event takes place at the University of Bergamo on (28)- 29-30 September 2022 with a rich program for the sessions open to the public.

On September 29th, the keynote session “European values and social identities” with Dr. Plamen Akaliyski and Dr. Simona Guglielmi, addresses relevant issues in current Europe societies, such as cultural integration and national and European identity. Later, during the roundtable on “Studying Values in Turbolent Europe“, Dr. Michale Ochsner (FORS, EVS Standing Group) chairs the discussion on current challenges and future prospects for values research with Ruud Luijks (EVS), Kseniya Kizilova (WVS/WAPOR), Andrea Bonaccorsi (University of Pisa and IRVAPP-FBK), and Gabi Lombardo (European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities).

On 29th afternoon and on 30th, the Third Italian conference of EVS/WVS data users takes place with selected presentations (sessions in English/Italian).

The event takes place in person.

Organizing Committee
Vera Lomazzi (University of Bergamo), Ferruccio Biolcati (University of Milan), Giancarlo Rovati (Catholic University of Milan), Ruud Luijkx (Tilburg University, University of Trento)


THE VALUES OF LIVING TOGETHER

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The last issue of Intercultura includes the Proceedings of the 11th Forum on Intercultural Learning and Exchange, entitled THE VALUES OF LIVING TOGETHER – How to assess their evolution within intercultural student exchanges (trimestrale_intercultura_n105_2022.pdf (fondazioneintercultura.org)

The issue contains the following contribution by Ferruccio (who reads in copy) and myself on value change and some insights from EVS and WVS data:

Biolcati, F., & Ladini, R. (2022), On Values As They Evolve: A Presentation of the World Values Survey and the European Values Study, Intercultura, 105, II Trimester, 11-18.

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