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3,...2,...1...We are LIVE! WVS-7 New Data Release is available for downloading now! The World Values Survey Association announces the first release of the latest 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 Albania, Australia and Argentina 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 so far for this wave.

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How Trump Solved the COVID-19 Pandemic On accepting the Republican nomination for re-election on August 27, 2020 President Trump boasted that “The United States has among the lowest case fatality rates of any major country in the world.” The claim was misleading. Case fatality rates measure how many people known to have gotten COVID-19 eventually die of it, and by that measure the U.S. ranked 11th among the 20 countries most affected by the disease. Trump had picked a statistic that reflects the quality of the U.S. health care system: Americans who got infected were likely to recover. But the claim was grossly misleading because it ignored the fact that under Trump’s presidency, Americans were vastly more likely to get infected than the citizens of most other countries. As he was speaking, the U.S. had the highest number of coronavirus-related deaths of any country in the world—by a wide margin.

Giving Up on God: The Global Decline of Religion A new article by Ronald Inglehart, Professor at the University of Michigan and WVSA's Founder and President (1981-2013), in the September/October 2020 issue of the Foreign Affairs.

EVS-WVS Operational meeting The representatives of the EVS and WVS secretariats and data archives met on Friday 14 August 2020 to agree on the workflows, procedures and standards for data archiving and data release of the joint EVS-WVS core dataset. The jointly release of the EVS-WVS dataset, prepared according to the agreed standards, is expected in October 2020.

WVSA Executive Committee Meeting 2020 The WVSA's Executive Committee held its annual meeting in electronic format on May 6. A number of important issues were discussed, including WVS-7 survey fieldwork schedule and response to the delays in survey completion caused by COVID-19; WVS-7 data release; WVSA General Assembly in 2021; improvements into the WVS-7 data cleaning procedures and survey wave deliverables; first plans for the WVS-8 survey round.

Call for papers: Changing values in a changing world? Italy in the European Values Study and World Values Survey (2018) Call for papers for a special issue "Changing values in a changing world? Italy in the European Values Study and World Values Survey (2018)" of “Quaderni di Sociologia” journal. Abstracts due June 30, 2020.

Values in a Crisis Survey: Invitation for Participation An international team of scholars under the leadership of the WVSA Vice-President Prof. Dr. Christian Welzel (Leuphana University Luneburg) is organizing a 3-wave "Values in Crisis" survey. The survey aims to study people' values now during the corona-pandemic (wave 1), shortly after the pandemic ceases (wave 2) and in approximately 1 year from now (wave 3). Self-administered 20-minutes online questionnaire is the main instrument. The survey will take place in Germany and the UK, and the team is looking for academic groups and public opinion research institutes who might be interested to expanding the study to their countries.

ONE POSTDOC SCHOLARSHIP Leuphana University of Lüneburg offers one Postdoc Scholarship at the Chair for Political Culture Research with a thematic focus on “comparative public opinion, political psychology and/or political behavior” at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, starting June 1st 2020. Application deadline: 30th of April 2020.

Remembering Björn Buß The World Values Survey Association's Secretariat is deeply saddened about the recent tragic loss in our team. The WVS mourns the unexpected passing of our Media and Communications Officer Björn Buß (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg) on 01.02.2020.

WVSA coordination team at the WVS7 survey training in Uzbekistan Last week a WVSA delegation gave public lectures at the Institute for Research of the Youth Problems and Training Prospective Personnel at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan in Tashkent. Training has been conducted for the new research team in Uzbekistan to conduct the WVS-7 survey round in Fall 2019.

WVSA delegation at the OSCE Conference in Central Asia Last week WVSA President Christian Haerpfer and Head of WVSA Secretariat Kseniya Kizilova served as invited key-note speakers at the Academic Conference on "System Transformation in CentralAsia and in Comparative Perspective".

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PRESIDENT

Christian Haerpfer

c.w.haerpfer@gmail.com

WVSA President

University of Vienna

Institute of Political Science

Vienna 1010, Austria

SECRETARIAT
(WVSA Headquarters)

Kseniya Kizilova

wvsa.secretariat@gmail.com

Head of WVSA Secretariat

Institute for Comparative

Survey Research

Vienna 1040, Austria

LEGAL SEAT

Bi Puranen

bi.puranen@worldvaluessurvey.org

Secretary-General

Institute for Future Studies

Stockholm, Sweden 101 31

DATA ARCHIVE

Jaime Diez-Medrano

jdiezmed@jdsurvey.net

Director of the WVSA Archive

Pza Manuel Rodrigo 1, B-1E

Madrid, Spain 28043

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