On November 26, WVSA Vice-President Professor Chris Welzel spoke on "Nationology": Nations as Gravitational Fields of Human Culture at the latest edition of the Culture and Values Webinar Series organized by Plamen Akaliyski.

On November 19-20, the Executive Committee of the World Values Survey Association held their annual meeting. The event took place in Stockholm, Sweden and was organized in a mixed format with the members of the EC joining in person and online. Participants included WVSA President Christian Haerpfer, WVSA Vice-President and Treasurer Alejandro Moreno, WVSA Vice-President Christian Welzel, Pippa Norris, Data archive director Jaime Diez Medrano, Marta Lagos, Bi Puranen, and Eduard Ponarin. The agenda included both summary of the WVS wave 7 and planning of the next WVS-8 survey round.

EVS and WVS time-series data-sets are released independently by EVS/GESIS and the WVSA/JDS. The Integrated Values Surveys (IVS) dataset 1981-2021 can be constructed by merging the EVS Trend File 1981-2017 (doi:10.4232/1.13736) and the WVS time-series 1981-2021 dataset (doi:10.14281/18241.15). It is based on the Common EVS/WVS Dictionary (2021) and includes 450 surveys from 115 countries/territories.

The World Values Survey Association (WVSA) and the European Values Study (EVS) are happy to announce the release of the official joint EVS-WVS 2017-2020 data-set. Fieldwork for this survey round was conducted from early 2017 to mid-2020. The joint data-set covers 79 countries and societies on all inhabited continents around the globe, ranging from Albania, Australia and Argentina to the United States, Vietnam and Zimbabwe. In total, over 127 358 respondents were interviewed so far for this joint EVS-WVS wave.