World Values Survey Wave 4 (1999-2004)

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）是一项国际性研究计划，致力于对全球民众的社会、政治、经济、宗教与文化价值观开展科学学术研究。本项目的核心目标是评估价值观的稳定性及其随时间推移产生的变化，对国家与社会的社会、政治与经济发展所造成的影响。该项目起源于欧洲价值观研究（European Values Study），由美国密歇根大学（University of Michigan）的罗纳德·英格尔哈特（Ronald Inglehart）教授及其团队于1981年发起，他同时担任该项目创始人与首任主席（任期1981-2013年）。自此以来，该项目已在全球120余个社会中开展研究工作。本项目的核心研究工具为具有代表性的比较社会调查，该调查每5年在全球范围内实施一次。凭借广泛的地理覆盖范围与主题研究范畴、面向广大公众免费开放的调查数据与项目研究成果，WVS已成为社会科学领域最具权威性且应用最为广泛的跨国调查之一。截至目前，WVS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。