New wave of surveys

The World Values Survey (WVS) network will carry out a new wave of surveys in 2010 - 2011. This will provide a 30-year time series for the analysis of social and political change. Building on the 1981 European Values Study (EVS), the EVS and WVS carried out a joint second wave in 1990; the WVS carried out a third wave in 1995; the EVS and WVS again did a joint survey in 1999-2001; and the WVS carried out its most recent wave of surveys in 2005-2007.
In March and April, 2009, a WVS working group will draft a core questionnaire and then circulate it to participants in the network for input. On the basis of the input received from partners around the world, the group's executive committee will meet in Stockholm in June 26-28, 2009 to agree on a draft questionnaire. This will then be circulated for a final round of input, and the core questionnaire will be adopted in September. Fieldwork will start in January, 2010 and will continue throughout 2011.