Documentation of the World Values Survey has been completely reorganized and revised.
You can download a quick-reference to using the site by clicking here
Documentation is classified in two groups:
- Documentation for download consisting of data files and pdf documents with results, questionnaires or technical/methodological description.
- Results from the different waves that can be analyzed online using a simple interface.
CARTOGRAPHICAL VIEW
The new MAP feature not only gives a different view of results but 
allows you to get indicators useful to build rankings. Maps are displayed for indicators built for each variable. We have defined an indicator for each variable of the different waves.
There are three possible types of indicators defined and you can select any of them:
- Most mentioned answer
- Percentage of an answer
- Calculated indicator (percentage of selected categories less percentage of other selected categories)
Maps and their data can be exported to Excel of PDF.
TIME SERIES
For any variable you can quickly compare the existing time series for selected countries.
Select the countries to compare in a given wave, select the variable and 
then click the series Tab and you will get the available time series for all waves (when the variable has been replicated).
Time series can be also be seen in graphical way and exported to PDF or Excel.
Use the button to switch between comparing by country and by category
All waves have been related internally and made compatible at the Data Archive in order to make this feature possible.
IMPROVED QUESTION DOCUMENTATION
Questions can now be seen in all applied questionnaire's languages (provided they are available). You only need to select the samle in a dropdown list.
While the translations appear on the right side of the question screen, the equivalences of the variable and the question wording appear on the left.
CITATION
When using the WVS data, please, make sure that you included a proper citation/ reference to the WVSA data-base as listed below. WVS data brought to you in free access is the result of work of a great number of scholars and survey researchers, and we believe their efforts should be acknowledged.
Citation format for WVS-6 (2011-2014) data-set:
Inglehart, R., C. Haerpfer, A. Moreno, C. Welzel, K. Kizilova, J. Diez-Medrano, M. Lagos, P. Norris, E. Ponarin & B. Puranen et al. (eds.). 2014. World Values Survey: Round Six - Country-Pooled Datafile Version:
https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV6.jsp. Madrid: JD Systems Institute.
Citation format for the aggregated (1981-2014) WVS data-file:
Inglehart, R., C. Haerpfer, A. Moreno, C. Welzel, K. Kizilova, J. Diez-Medrano, M. Lagos, P. Norris, E. Ponarin & B. Puranen et al. (eds.). 2014. World Values Survey: All Rounds - Country-Pooled Datafile Version:
https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWVL.jsp. Madrid: JD Systems Institute.