WVS-7 Fieldwork Progress
On July 20, 2020 the World Values Survey Association announced the first release of the brand-new World Values Survey dataset (WVS-7, V1.0). Fieldwork for this 7th wave was conducted from mid-2017 to early-2020. This includes 77 countries and societies on all inhabited continents around the globe, ranging from Andorra, Argentina and Australia to the United States, Vietnam and Zimbabwe, as well as surveys conducted in collaboration with the European Values Study. In total, over 129,000 respondents were interviewed for this wave. Geographic coverage has also been expanded to several new countries included for the first time, such as Bolivia, Greece, Myanmar, Nicaragua, and Tajikistan.
All countries surveyed in WVS-7 employ nationwide random probability representative sample designs with the sample size from 1000 to 3200 respondents. More information and further updates are available at the project’s Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn profiles. Which countries are included so far? As a result of a joint survey effort, the WVS and/or the EVS surveys (sometimes both) have been completed in 81 countries/ territories listed below. The next WVS-7 data release planned for February 2022 will include new data for Armenia (WVS survey), Kenya, Maldives, Mongolia, Morocco, and Venezuela. New data for Czech Republic (WVS survey), Libya, Netherlands (WVS survey), Slovak Republic (WVS survey), and Urguay will be published in April 2022. Further surveys -interrupted by the outbreak of the corona-virus- whose delivery is delayed and expected after April 2022 include India, Uzbekistan, Great Britain and Northern Ireland (WVS survey). Data release for two more countries (Latvia and Luxembourg) is planned by the European Values Study. Thus, the very final joint EVS-WVS data-set for the current round is likely to include about 92 countries/ societies.
