Summary information
Study title
EVS - European Values Study 1999 - Netherlands
Creator
Arts, Wil A. (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Hagenaars, Jacques A.P. (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Halman, Loek (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Luijkx, Ruud (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Study number / PID
ZA3783, Version 3.0.1 (GESIS)
10.4232/1.11547 (DOI)
Data access
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Series
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Abstract
Moral, religious, societal, political, work, and family values of
Europeans.
Topics:
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; inter-human trust;
self-effectiveness (scale); general contentment with life (scale).
Work: 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 judgment 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 perhaps earlier religious denomination; current frequency of...
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Methodology
Data collection period
01/03/1999 - 31/08/1999
Country
Netherlands
Time dimension
Not availableAnalysis unit
Not availableUniverse
Not availableSampling procedure
Representative multi-stage random sample
Kind of data
Not availableData collection mode
Face-to-face interviews with standardized questionnaire
Access
Publisher
GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences
Publication year
2012
Terms of data access
A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.
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