World Values Survey
The World Values Survey is based on a worldwide investigation of socio-cultural and political change, undertaken by a network of social scientists and coördinated by the World Values Survey Association (Stockholm). The WVS is designed for analysis of the basic values and beliefs of subjects in more than 80 societies.
See also the European Values Study description page.
In 2010 the WVS network issued the WVS five-wave aggregated file for 1981-2005 .
Four earlier waves of the World Values Survey are also available :
2000
1995
1990
1981
Data documentation is available on this WVS page .
Updates are available on the World Values Survey homepage .
Users must first register on the left side of the World Values Survey page, at the 'Download Survey Data Files' link.
Surveys are available in Stata, SAS and SPSS formats.
The WVS network also provides a tutorial on online data analysis .
Contact: Thomas Bourke at econlibrary@eui.eu