The European Values Study and the World Values Survey Association signed a cooperation agreement for the next joint survey wave in European countries. Both organizations will aim to carry out the joint EVS/WVS survey in Europe during 2026-2027. The joint EVS/WVS survey will take place as a part of the 8 th wave of the WVS scheduled to take place worldwide in 2024-2026, and the 6 th wave of the EVS scheduled to take place in Europe in 2026-2028.

Acknowledging the added value of the EVS/WVS joint surveys and datasets for the data users, and realizing the advantages for the research teams in both networks, the following key principles of the future cooperation are proposed. 
To maximize the benefits for the data-users, the EVS and the WVSA shall aim at and explore jointly how to:

• Expand the geographical coverage of EVS and WVS surveys in Europe.
• Increase the joint core questionnaire (overlapping variables) to be surveyed by the EVS and the WVSA in Europe.
• Facilitate harmonization of the socioeconomic and demographic variables.
• Increase the amount of survey data by allowing split sample models (or conducting two non-conflicting timewise and funding-wise surveys) in Europe where possible.
• Facilitate cooperation on data cleaning and publication of joint dataset and related deliverables.

To maximize the efficiency of cooperation for the survey teams, the EVS and the WVSA shall aim at and explore jointly how to:

• Ensure regular, smooth communication and information exchange between the EVS and WVSA teams in countries where EVS and WVS have different National Program Directors/ Principal Investigators.
• Avoid open competition over funding in the same country by introducing coordination of fundraising effort, altering the surveys timing or introducing mediation between the Principal Investigators (PIs) if necessary.
• Ensure proper acknowledgement of all invested efforts from both EVS and WVSA, and presentation of the surveys conducted within the framework of this agreement as “joint EVS/WVS surveys in Europe”.

The Joint Liaison Committee (JLC) will ensure the coordination between data collection in Europe and the rest of the world and will cooperate as equal partners in the following activities:

• Preparation and submission of joint funding applications in countries where EVS and WVS have different National Program Directors/ Principal Investigators.
• Discussion and consultancy regarding sampling, sampling design, applied methodological guidelines, questionnaire translation, etc., subject to the minimum standards set out by the EVS.
• Jointly approve the wording and order of the items in the common core of the questionnaire.
• Transparency of all procedures and regular information exchange.
• Joint data collection of EVS and WVS national teams in those countries where the two organizations have separate PIs, while these PIs retain their status within the EVS and WVS, respectively.
• Cooperative resolution of any conflicts or disputes arising in this process.

It is expected that, similar to the previous waves, the two questionnaires will consist of joint items that are common to both and unique items that are specific to either the EVS or WVS questionnaire. The joint items define the Common Core of both questionnaires, while the unique items constitute the Separate Parts of the EVS and WVS questionnaires. Under the premises of this agreement, it is in the interest of both the EVS and WVS to take all meaningful efforts to maximize the Common Core relative to the Separate Parts. The Common Core will be agreed upon by the end of October 2023.
In addition, the EVS questionnaire will include a Separate Part of unique items that are not used by the WVS. Analogously, the unique items of the WVS’s Separate Part will be fielded only in the other parts of the world. Amid the differences in the wave timelines, the WVS will have the WVS-8 questionnaire ready in late 2023; the EVS will have their questionnaire ready in 2025.

To build cooperation and understanding, the JLC will explore opportunities for common future activities of mutual interests linking all members of the EVS and WVS communities, such as considering organizing joint panels, conferences and workshops, outreach, reports, publications, and publicity. Regular communications will usually be electronic and members of the JLC will be invited to participate in major organizational events, planning meetings, and workshops from 2024 to 2028, and information about any Calls for Papers for any conference panels, seminar events, or academic workshops sharing findings will be disseminated among members of the EVS and WVSA networks, to promote mutual cooperation and understanding.

For more information about the next waves of EVS ane WVS and any questions about the cooperation agreement, please, contact  secretariat.evs@gmail.com and/or wvsa.secretariat@gmail.com.

EVS-WVS_cooperation_agreement_20_09_2023.pdf

During the General Assembly of the European Survey Research Association, held in Milan on 18 July 2023, Vera Lomazzi, Secretary of the Executive Committee, has been eleceted President.

The new ESRA board 2023-2025 is composed as follows:

President: Vera Lomazzi (University of Bergamo, Italy)

Vice President: Alexander Wenz (University of Mannheim, Germany)

Conference Chair: Daniel Seddig (University of Cologne, Germany)

Vice Conference Chair: Angelo Moretti (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

General Secretary: Alessandra Gaia (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)

Treasurer: Emily Gilbert (London Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime, UK)

Committee Member – Communication: Carina Cornesse (DIW Berlin, Germany)

Committee Member – Education: Olga Maslovskaya (University of Southampton, UK)

Committee Member – Podcasts: Daniil Lebedev (Independent Researcher)

Committee Member – Awards: Stephanie Steinmetz (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

Committee Member – Constitutional Affairs): Tom W. Smith (NORC at the University of Chicago, USA)

Committee Member – GDPR Compliance, Membership: Michael Bergmann (Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Munich, Germany)

Committee Member: René Bautista (NORC at the University of Chicago, USA)

Committee Member: Trent D. Buskirk (Bowling Green State University, USA)

Committee Member: Pablo Cabrera Alvarez (University of Essex, UK)

Committee Member: Mengyao Hu (University of Michigan, USA)

Committee Member: Alisú Schoua-Glusberg (Research Support Services Inc., USA)

Committee Member: Vera Toepoel (Statistics Netherlands, The Netherlands)

Editor of Survey Research Methods: Ulrich Kohler (University of Potsdam, Germany)

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.

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.

• Joint EVS/WVS 2017-2022 Dataset (Joint EVS/WVS), ZA7505, v4.0.0 (2022-12-14), GESIS-DOI doi:10.4232/1.14023; WVS-DOI doi: 10.14281/18241.21

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.

• EVS Trend File 1981-2017, ZA7503, v3.0.0 (2022-12-14), doi:10.4232/1.14021.
• EVS Trend File 1981-2017 – Sensitive Dataset, ZA7504, v2.0.0 (2022-12-14), doi:10.4232/1.14022.

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.

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.