WVS WAVE 8
The most recent 8th wave of the World Values Survey started in January 2024. WVS-8 is planned for 2024-2026.
Strategic goals for the 8th wave included:
- Expansion of territorial coverage from 70 countries in WVS-7 to 80 in WVS-8;
- Deepening collaboration within the international development community;
- Deepening collaboration within NGOs, academic institutions and research foundations;
- Updating the WVS-8 questionnaire with new topics & items covering new social phenomena and emerging processes of value change;
- Expanding the 8th wave WVS with data useful for monitoring the SDGs;
- Expanding capacity and resources for survey fieldwork in developing countries.
The 8th wave continues monitoring cultural values, attitudes and beliefs towards gender, family, and religion; attitudes and experience of poverty; education, health, and security; social tolerance and trust; attitudes towards multilateral institutions; cultural differences and similarities between regions and societies. In addition, the WVS-8 questionnaire has been elaborated with the inclusion of such new topics as political trust, authoritarianism and populism, migration, climate change, and family planning. The WVS-8 questionnaire was finalized in November 2023.
The WVS-8 survey was launched in January 2024 with Canada, Japan, South African, and Thailand being the first countries to go into the field. In the course of 2024-2025, WVS-8 survey is planned to be conducted in Australia, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Hong Kong SAR, Kazakhstan, Japan; Malaysia; Mexico, Mongolia, Peru, Singapore, Taiwan ROC, United States. The list of countries will be updated and expanded, once news about survey funding comes in.
The WVS-8 survey round marks another occasion of a fruitful cooperation and successful partnership between the World Values Survey Association and the European Values Study as surveys in many European countries have been conducted by the joint EVS-WVS teams.