Extensive documentation on the national datasets of EVS 2008 is available for download. For documentation related to the Integrated Dataset EVS 2008, please go to Data and Documentation.

Documentation related to the national datasets

Method Report (MR)
Country-specific information on the national datasets, based on the methodological questionnaire submitted by the EVS member countries.

Field Questionnaire (FQ)
Field questionnaire(s) in all languages fielded in the respective country and Showcards.

Variable Report (VR)
The bilingual (English language/original language) variable reports combine variable descriptions of the national datasets with the question texts of the English Master Questionnaire as well as the original question texts of the field questionnaires.

Archive Study No	Country	Data collection period	Sample size	SD	MR	FQ	VR-EN	VR-BL
ZA4783	Albania	2008-07-10 to 2008-09-09	1534	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Albanian
ZA4784	Armenia	2008-06-16 to 2008-09-19	1500	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Armenian
ZA4754	Austria	2008-07-21 to 2008-10-22	1510	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/German
ZA4785	Azerbaijan*	2008-07-11 to 2008-08-10	1505	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Azerbaijani EN/Russian
ZA4782	Belarus	2008-06-11 to 2008-07-31	1500	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Russian
ZA4759	Belgium	2009-04-30 to 2009-08-02	1509	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Dutch EN/French
ZA4786	Bosnia- Herzegovina	2008-07-12 to 2008-07-31	1512	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Bosnian
ZA4774	Bulgaria	2008-04-21 to 2008-06-15	1500	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Bulgarian
ZA4775	Croatia	2008-04-31 to 2008-10-31	1525	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Croatian
ZA4787	Cyprus	2008-10-25 to 2008-11-28	1000	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Greek
ZA4788	Northern Cyprus	2008-10-28 to 2008-12-04	500	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Turkish
ZA4770	Czech Republic	2008-05-05 to 2008-11-02	1821	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Czech
ZA4760	Denmark	2008-04-01 to 2008-09-15	1507	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Danish
ZA4766	Estonia	2008-07-01 to 2008-08-31	1518	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Estonian EN/Russian
ZA4762	Finland	2009-07-09 to 2009-07-15	1134	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Finnish
ZA4751	France	2008-05-07 to 2008-09-04	3071	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/French
ZA4789	Georgia	2008-08-21 to 2008-09-30	1500	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Georgian EN/Russian
ZA4753	Germany	2008-09-17 to 2009-02-10	2075	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/German
ZA4752	Great Britain	2009-08-01 to 2010-03-10	1561	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/GB-English
ZA4776	Greece	2008-09-12 to 2008-10-26	1500	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Greek
ZA4772	Hungary	2008-11-26 to 2009-01-28	1513	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Hungarian
ZA4763	Iceland	2009-07-15 to 2010-03-15	808	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Icelandic
ZA4765	Ireland	2008-06-07 to 2008-08-31	1013	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/IE-English
ZA4755	Italy	2009-10-02 to 2009-12-30	1519	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Italian
ZA4790	Kosovo	2008-07-15 to 2008-10-13	1601	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Albanian EN/Serbian
ZA4767	Latvia	2008-06-01 to 2008-10-31	1506	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Latvian EN/Russian
ZA4768	Lithuania	2008-07-21 to 2008-09-14	1500	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Lithuanian
ZA4779	Luxembourg	2008-05-03 to 2008-12-15	1610	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Luxemb. EN/German EN/French EN/Portuguese EN/Lu-English
ZA4792	Republic of Macedonia	2008-07-03 to 2008-10-13	1500	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Macedonian EN/Albanian
ZA4778	Malta	2008-06-16 to 2008-09-23	1500	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Maltese EN/MT-English
ZA4793	Republic of Moldova	2008-07-02 to 2008-10-04	1551	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Moldovan EN/Russian
ZA4794	Republic of Montenegro	2008-11-12 to 2008-12-08	1516	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Montenegrin
ZA4758	Netherlands	2008-05-21 to 2008-10-31	1554	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Dutch
ZA4764	Northern Ireland	2008-09-26 to 2008-10-23	500	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/NIR-English
ZA4795	Norway	2008-04-07 to 2008-09-02	1090	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Norwegian
ZA4769	Poland	2008-06-27 to 2008-09-28	1510	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Polish
ZA4757	Portugal	2008-05-26 to 2008-08-31	1553	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Portuguese
ZA4773	Romania	2008-04-24 to 2008-06-30	1489	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Romanian EN/Hungarian
ZA4777	Russian Federation	2008-06-28 to 2008-07-26	1504	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Russian
ZA4796	Serbia	2008-07-14 to 2008-07-31	1512	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Serbian
ZA4771	Slovak Republic	2008-07-14 to 2008-08-29	1509	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Slovakian EN/Hungarian
ZA4780	Slovenia	2008-03-27 to 2008-06-18	1366	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Slovenian
ZA4756	Spain	2008-05-28 to 2008-07-15	1500	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Spanish
ZA4761	Sweden	2009-09-25 to 2010-01-10	1187	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Swedish
ZA4797	Switzerland	2008-05-08 to 2008-10-06	1271	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/German EN/French EN/Italian
ZA4791	Turkey	2008-11-26 to 2009-03-01	2384	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Turkish
ZA4781	Ukraine	2008-07-12 to 2008-10-09	1507	SD	MR	FQ	VR	EN/Ukrainian EN/Russian

*WARNING: Users who are interested in analyzing Azerbaijanian data of EVS wave 2008 should note that there are problems with data quality. Please carefully check socio-demographic distributions (e.g. age, education, and marital status) indicating problems regarding sample design and fieldwork, respectively. For evaluation, the data and documentation of the national dataset (Azerbaijan, ZA4785) can be downloaded from the GESIS data catalog.