World Values Survey Time-Series (1981-2022) Cross-National Data-Set

The World Values Survey (WVS) is an international research program devoted to the scientific and academic study of social, political, economic, religious and cultural values of people in the world. The project’s goal is to assess which impact values stability or change over time has on the social, political and economic development of countries and societies. The project grew out of the European Values Study and was started in 1981 by its Founder and first President (1981-2013) Professor Ronald Inglehart from the University of Michigan (USA) and his team, and since then has been operating in more than 120 world societies. The main research instrument of the project is a representative comparative social survey which is conducted globally every 5 years. Extensive geographical and thematic scope, free availability of survey data and project findings for broad public turned the WVS into one of the most authoritative and widely-used cross-national surveys in the social sciences. At the moment, WVS is the largest non-commercial cross-national empirical time-series investigation of human beliefs and values ever executed.

世界价值观调查（World Values Survey，WVS）是一项国际性研究项目，致力于以科学、学术的方式研究全球民众的社会、政治、经济、宗教与文化价值观。该项目的核心目标是探究价值观的稳定性或随时间推移产生的变化，对国家与社会的社会、政治及经济发展所产生的影响。本项目脱胎于欧洲价值观研究项目，于1981年由其创始人、首任主席（1981-2013年）美国密歇根大学的罗纳德·英格尔哈特（Ronald Inglehart）教授及其团队发起，自此已在全球120余个国家与社会中开展研究工作。该项目的主要研究工具为具有代表性的比较性社会调查，每五年在全球范围内开展一次。其广泛的地理与主题覆盖范围、面向公众免费开放的调查数据与项目研究成果，使得世界价值观调查成为社会科学领域内最具权威性、应用最为广泛的跨国调查项目之一。截至目前，世界价值观调查是有史以来规模最大的非商业化跨国人类信仰与价值观实证时间序列研究项目。