EVS - European Values Study 2017

European Values Study (EVS) is a large-scale, long-term, comparative international research project focused on analysing value orientations in Europe. It is conducted in European countries in 9-year cycles and examines the continuity and changes in values related to the most important areas of human life. The EVS project is one of the oldest comparative studies of value orientations in Europe (details on the EVS website: https://europeanvaluesstudy.eu/).
The coordinator of the project is the international Methodology Group at the University of Tilburg, Netherlands. The main EVS objective is to enable an international comparison of values and attitudes and their changes in European countries. A frequently asked research question is: Can we identify shifts between traditional and modern values in a given topic area? Topics covered in the survey include: work, life goals, family life, gender roles, religion, current social issues, feelings of happiness, volunteer activities, social distance, interest in politics and political activity, national identity, solidarity, attitudes towards immigrants, the region, the country, the EU, and so on.
In Slovakia, the EVS survey was conducted for the first time in 1991, when Slovakia was still part of Czechoslovakia, but the EVS survey was conducted as two separate representative surveys in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. The EVS_1991 survey in both countries represents the first European international comparative data on value orientations that are historically available. The following three waves of EVS were conducted in 1999, 2008, and 2017. More information and access to EVS data and documentation can be found on the EVS project website: https://europeanvaluesstudy.eu/ and in the German social data archive GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: https://www.gesis.org/en/european-values-study/overview.