EVS - European Values Study 1999 - Integrated Dataset

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 2008
allows for identifying country specific deviations in the question wording
within and across the EVS waves.

This overview can be found at:
<a href=http://info1.gesis.org/EVS/Variables/ target=_blank>Online Variable Overview </a>.

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; interhuman 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 judgement 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; postmaterialism (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 of
school 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
provision for pensions as well as for housing (scale); attitude to
fundamental or only cautious changes in one´s own life; attitude to
revolutionary change of society; judgement 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.