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Public Release: Dataset “WVS Wave 1 to 6 Key Aggregates” (time-pooled cross section) The World Values Survey Association is happy to release the Dataset “WVS Wave 1 to 6 Key Aggregates” (time-pooled cross section). The data-file is a collection of aggregated measures and indexes developed by the WVSA Vice-President Professor Christian Welzel. Values are calculated for all countries included into the WVS wave 1 to 6. All values are calculated at national level (country means and country aggregates).

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Scientific workshop "The World Values Survey (1981-2018): Exploring the Cultural Change. Organization, History, Findings" in Astana, Kazakhstan Scientific workshop "The World Values Survey (1981-2018): Exploring the Cultural Change. Organization, History, Findings" took place in Astana, Kazakhstan on May 29, 2018. The workshop was organized by Dr Botagoz Rakisheva, WVS-7 PI for Kazakhstan, and featured presentations of the WVSA President Christian Haerpfer and Head of the WVSA Secretariat Kseniya Kizilova. The workshop attracted several dozen scientists, researchers, policymakers and scholars in Kazakhstan.

WVS-7 in Kazakhstan: Working meeting with the WVSA Secretariat WVS-7 planning working meeting with the team of the Public Opinion Research Institute under the leadership of its Founding Director and the new WVS-7 Principal Investigator for Kazakhstan Dr Botagoz Rakisheva took place on May, 28, 2018. WVS round 7 will begin in Kazakhstan in June 2018.

WVS-Brazil team begins WVS7 survey fieldwork! In May-June, 2018 the WVS-Brazil team under the leadership of Henrique Carlos de Castro will complete the 7th wave of values study. This will be the 5th time WVS survey will take place in Brazil. There will be done 2000 interviews in Brazil, distributed in 141 towns of 24 states plus the Federal District. The questionnaire application team is composed of about a hundred interviewers, intending to start the field work on May 16th and to closure on June 2nd, 2018.

AVAILABLE NOW: a new book by Ronald Inglehart "Cultural Evolution" A new book by Ronald Inglehart "Cultural Evolution: People's Motivations are Changing, and Reshaping the World" (2018). The book presents the evolutionary modernization theory, a new interpretation of what drives political and social change. It tests the implications of this theory against survey data from over 100 countries, surveyed from 1981 to 2014. The book presents the findings in discussions based on graphs rather than using equations and statistical tables.
Click on this link to learn more: www.cambridge.org/9781108489317

Interview with the WVS-7 PI for Jordan Dr Fares Braizat “Successive governments have failed in the eyes of the public,” said Fares Braizat, chairman of NAMA Strategic Intelligence Solutions, a research, polling and consulting firm based in Amman. “This is a statement about bad public economic policy planning and execution.”

WVS7 planning meeting in the Middle East: Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon go into the field! WVSA Secretariat and WVSA-MENA team held a methodological seminar and a working meeting this week in Amman. Issues discussed: survey planning in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Iraq; WVS-7 regional module in MENA; data analysis, publications and future events.

New Rules for WVS Database Citation Dear scholars, authors, students, journalists and all colleagues who use WVS data in your research, analysis, journal publications and books! We would like to attract your attention to the new rules for citation of the WVS data-set when using it. When making a publication, please, make sure that it includes a reference to the WVS in the following format:

WVSA releases WVS-6 report on "Social Values and Attitudes in the MENA Region" (2012-2014) The World Values Survey Association releases WVS-6 report on "Social Values and Attitudes in the MENA Region". Report is based on the WVS (2012-2014) survey data collected in 12 countries and societies in the Middle East. Project has been implemented with the support of Silatech Foundation (Qatar) and Economic Research Forum (Egypt). WVS wave 7 begins in the Middle East in Summer 2018.

WVS-7 survey round: summarizing achivements and lookging for new opportunities WVSA invites expressions of interest from new survey teams, universities and research institutes in Venezuela and Paraguay, Guyana, Suriname, and Nicaragua, Guatemala and Panama, Cambodia and Vietnam, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan as well as in a number of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

International conference "Popular Evaluation of Well-Being in the Arab World, East Asia, South East Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America" International conference "Popular Evaluation of Well-Being in the Arab World, East Asia, South East Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America" took place at the United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain, UAE on February, 4-6, 2018. The event was organized by the Global Barometer Survey Group with the support of the Department of Sociology of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at UAEU and the World Values Survey Association.

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SECRETARIAT & PRESIDENT'S OFFICE

Institute for Comparative Survey Research

Vienna - Austria

PRESIDENT

Prof. Christian W Haerpfer

Email: christian_haerpfer@univie.ac.at

SECRETARY

Ms Kseniya Kizilova

Email: ksenniya.kizilova@gmail.com

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Secretary General, World Values Survey

Associate Professor Bi Puranen

Email: bi.puranen@worldvaluessurvey.org

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Director of the WVSA Archive

Engineer Jaime Díez-Medrano

Email: jdiezmed@jdsurvey.net

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