EVS - European Values Study 1999 (release 3.0.0, 2011) - Integrierter Datensatz

The online overview offers comprehensive metadata on the EVS datasets and variables. The variable overview of the four EVS waves 1981, 1990, 1999/2000, and 2008allows for identifying country specific deviations in the question wording within and across the EVS waves. This overview can be found at:Online Variable Overview.Moral, religious, societal, political, work, and family values of Europeans. Topics: The question program is divided in three parts: besides a common question program for all countries there is a voluntary supplement program and further country-specific questions. 1. Common question program: leisure time: importance of areas of life; feeling of happiness; memberships and honorary activities in clubs, parties, organizations, citizens´ initiatives and occupation organizations; interactions in leisure time; tolerance regarding minorities, those of other beliefs and foreigners; inter human trust; self-effectiveness (scale); general contentment with life (scale). working world: importance of selected characteristics of occupational work (scale); personal employment; general work satisfaction (scale); self-determination at work (scale); work ethic (scale); attitude to achievement-based pay and following work instructions without criticism; priority of nationals over foreigners as well as men over women with shortage of jobs; assumed priority of individual or social reasons for the situation of economic need of individuals; freedom of the unemployed to reject a job offer (scale). politics: party preference; attitude to foreign workers in one´s country; fear of the future; assimilation and integration of immigrants; concept of a just society (more welfare state or liberalism, scale); interest in political news in the media; individualism and thinking of the community; interest in politics; political participation; self-assessment on a left-right continuum (scale); self-responsibility or governmental provision (scale); attitude to competition freedom and entrepreneur freedom (scale); satisfaction with democracy; attitude to the current political system of the country and judgment on the political system of the country ten years ago (scale); preference for a democratic political system or for strong leadership of an individual politician (scale); attitude to democracy (scale); loss of national characteristics through unification of Europe. religion: individual or general standard for good and evil; current and possibly earlier religious denomination; current frequency of church attendance and at the age of 12; importance of religious celebration at birth, marriage and funeral; self-assessment of religiousness; ability of the religious community in moral questions, with problems in family life, with spiritual needs and current social problems of the country; belief in God, life after death, hell, heaven, sin, telepathy and reincarnation; belief in God or nihilism (scale); importance of God in one´s life(scale); comfort and strength through belief; prayer and Meditation; frequency of prayer; possession and belief in lucky charms or talisman(scale); reading and observing horoscopes; attitude to separation of church (religion) and state (scale). family and marriage: most important criteria for a successful marriage (scale); attitude to marriage and traditional family structure (scale); attitude to one´s own children (scale); attitude to traditional understanding of one´s role of man and woman in occupation and family (scale); attitude to a traditional or liberal parent-child relation; importance of educational goals; attitude to abortion. society: preference for individual freedom or social equality; post-materialism (scale); preferred social development (scale); attitude to technical progress; trust in institutions; observing individual human rights in the country; attitude to environmental protection (scale); closeness to family, neighborhood, the people in the region, countrymen, Europeans and humanity; closeness to older people, the unemployed, foreigners and handicapped as well as readiness to make an effort for these groups; personal reasons for assistance with older people as well as foreigners; identification with the city, region, the nation, Europe and the world; national pride. morals and sexuality: moral attitudes(tax evasion, theft, use of drugs, lying, bribe money, corruption, euthanasia, suicide, environmental pollution, alcohol at the wheel; scale); moral attitudes to partnership and sexuality (homosexuality, abortion, divorce, promiscuity; scale); assumed spreading of immoral behavior in the population of the country (scale); attitude to punishment dependent on the situation of culprit or victim (scale). Demography: sex; year of birth; marital status and living together with a partner; number of children; school education; age at termination ofs chool training; employment; superior function and span of control; company size; occupation (ISCO88) and occupational position; length of unemployment; size of household; ages of children in household; head of household; characteristics of head of household; household income. Also encoded was: city size; region; country. 2. In some countries the following additional questions were posed: attitude to privatization of national companies (scale); readiness to go to war for one´s country; attitude to equal income or income based on achievement (scale); preference for individual or government tprovision for pensions as well as for housing (scale); attitude to fundamental or only cautious changes in one´s own life; attitude tor evolutionary change of society; judgment on the solvability of environmental problems, crime and unemployment at national level; job security; thoughts about the meaning of life; belief in angels and supernatural powers; attitude to conducting religious practices in school; attitude to dealing with different religious traditions; attitude to prohibiting books and films hostile to religion; assessment of the influence of the churches on politics in the country; moral concepts about traveling without a ticket, political murder, embryo research, gene manipulation, prostitution, pedophilia (scale); trust in countrymen. Interviewer rating: social class of respondent; willingness of respondent to cooperate. Also encoded: date of interview; length of interview.