A Global Social Network Values Dataset

Online social networks enable individuals to present a version of themselves to their immediate social circle and beyond. Those presentations express cultural factors such as an individual's gender, location, political, philosophical, and religious values. However, obtaining such data is often challenging on the aggregate level as it typically involves negotiations with private entities and ownership restrictions. This study presents a dataset of 244,629,979 user accounts from the platform Vkontakte, an online social network collected in June of 2020. Vkontakte is a social media platform similar to Facebook that allows individuals to connect with other users, communicate with them through public and private messages, and create public personas. This dataset can perform cross-national and cross-cultural analyses of online values from a large portion of the world.