EVS Trend File 1981-2017 – Sensitive Dataset

The European Values Study is a large-scale, cross-national and longitudinal survey research program on how Europeans think about family, work, religion, politics, and society. Repeated every nine years in an increasing number of countries, the survey provides insights into the ideas, beliefs, preferences, attitudes, values, and opinions of citizens all over Europe.

The EVS Trend File 1981-2017 is constructed from the five EVS waves and covers almost 40 years. In altogether 160 surveys, more than 224.000 respondents from 48 countries/regions were interviewed. It is based on the updated data of the EVS Longitudinal Data File 1981-2008 (v.3.1.0) and the current EVS 2017 Integrated Dataset (v.5.0.0).

For the EVS Trend File, a Restricted-Use File (ZA7504) is available in addition to the (factually anonymised) Scientific-Use File (ZA7503). The EVS Trend File – Sensitive Dataset (ZA7504) is provided as an add-on file. In addition to a small set of admin and protocol variables needed to merge with the SUF data, the Sensitive Dataset contains the following variables that could not be included in the scientific-use file due to their sensitive nature:

W005_3 Job profession/industry (3-digit ISCO88) - spouse/partner EVS 2008
W005_3_01 Job profession/industry (3-digit ISCO08) - spouse/partner EVS 2017
W005_4 Job profession/industry (4-digit ISCO88) - spouse/partner EVS 2008
X035_3 Job profession/industry (3-digit ISCO88) – respondent EVS 1999, EVS 2008
X035_3_01 Job profession/industry (3-digit ISCO08) - respondent EVS 2017
X035_4 Job profession/industry (4-digit ISCO88) – respondent EVS 1999, EVS 2008
x048c_n3 Region where the interview was conducted (NUTS-3): NUTS version 2006 EVS 2008
X048J_N3 Region where the interview was conducted (NUTS-3): NUTS version 2016 EVS 2017
X049 Size of town (8 categories) EVS 2008, EVS 2017

Detailed information on the anonymization process in the EVS Trend File is provided in the EVS Trend File Variable Report.<br>Study number; version; Digital Object Identifier, EVS-wave; country (ISO 3166-1 Numeric code); original respondent number; unified respondent number; country (ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 code); country - wave; job profession/industry (3-digit ISCO88) - spouse/partner; job profession/industry (3-digit ISCO08) - spouse/partner; job profession/industry (4-digit ISCO88) - spouse/partner; job profession/industry (3-digit ISCO88) - respondent; job profession/industry (3-digit ISCO08) - respondent; job profession/industry (4-digit ISCO88) - respondent; region where the interview was conducted (NUTS-3): NUTS version 2006; region where the interview was conducted (NUTS-3): NUTS version 2016; size of town (8 categories).