1. Ruud Luijkx Tilburg University The Netherlands
The European Values Study and its metadata: stock taking and the future
Ruud Luijkx
Tilburg University
The Netherlands

2. European Values Study
A longitudinal and international comparative survey research project on basic human values

3. Short history First wave: 1981
European Countries: France, Great Britain, West Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Iceland
Non-European Countries: Canada, USA

4. Original Research Questions
Do Europeans share common values?
Are values changing?
Do Christian values continue to permeate European life and culture?
Is a coherent alternative meaning system replacing that of Christianity?
What are the implications for European unity?

5. EVS questionnaire subjects
religion
morality
politics
society
family & marriage
sexuality
education
work
leisure time

10. Second/Third wave 1990/199 In 1999 also new issues:
Modified replication of 1981
More countries from Western and Eastern Europe
In 1999 also new issues:
solidarity
social capital
democracy
work ethics

11. Fourth wave 2008 Largely a replication of 1999
All countries of Europe (with more than 100,000 inhabitants)
Progress of the fieldwork
More emphasis on high quality socio-demographic (background) variables
High quality translation of the questionnaires

12. Our colleagues: the World Values Survey
“third wave” ( )
“fourth wave” ( )
“fifth wave”( )
Overlap in the questionnaire is about 60%

13. Data dissemmination Through data archives
GESIS is the primary data archive for EVS
1981 originally at UKDA
1990 at DANS
For/in 1981/1990 only data and questionnaires (later in pdf-format)

14. (Meta) data 1999 GESIS Codebook explorer GESIS ZACAT Study description
Bibliographic citation
Study scope
Methodology and processing
Data-access
Data Files Description

15. (Meta) data 1999—GESIS ZACAT
Comparative questions (master questionnaire) with 1981 and 1990
Original question wordings for all languages: question texts, answer categories, and show cards of the questionnaires
Explanatory notes concerning differences between national and master questionnaire, difficulties arising from translation, and additional questions used in the national questionnaires were added.

16. Harmonising different waves
In 2006 a harmonised data set was released after (post hoc) harmonisation of all Value Surveys since 1981 (ASEP/JDS, EVS-Tilburg, GESIS)
Goals:
Make all Value Surveys available on line
Facilitate simple analyses
Disseminate all documentation
Web sites where data are available:
EVS
ASEP/JDS
WVS (Enter from WVS )
ALSO HARMONISING META DATA

17. Meta data 2008 Improved presentation on ZACAT
Including more notes from the translation process
DatapluS: Repositories for Enhanced Survey Publications

18. DatapluS Funded by Surf Foundation
Create 2 subject repositories with enriched publications
Besides European Values Study (EVS), also Dutch Parliamentary Election Study
Enriched with:
Syntax codes of constructs, concepts
Links to (meta) data (at the variable level)—persistent identifier issue

19. Work Packages 1,2: INPUT: Enhanced Publications (EVS, DPES)
3: A Sustainable Library Infrastructure for Enhanced Publications: LIS (Tilburg University) Library Twente (presentation Thomas Place)
4: DDI 3.0 Enhanced Publication Editor: CentERdata (Tilburg University); presentation Bart van Nieuwburg
5: Linking to (Meta) Data Stored in Data Archives (GESIS, DANS)

20. Deliverables 2 subject repositories with enriched publications
Enhanced Publication Editor
Infrastructure compatible with existing repository systems

21. Future issues Make more meta data available in a more coordinated way
Use version control of (meta)data—also cross linking data releases
Further integration of publications and data
Integration of data from different sources (macro indicators)