Keeping New Zealand in the World Values Survey, 1985-2019: A Brief Project History and Selected New Zealand Social Trends from the World’s Largest Non-Commercial Social Survey - by the WVS PI for New Zealand Professor Paul Perry (School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University) and Polly Yeung (School of Social Work, Massey University) in Aotearoa New Zealand Journal of Social Issues.

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.

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.

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.

Democracy and especially its liberal principles are said to be fast receding as various forms of authoritarianism surge. In truth, the long-term future for democracy in the world is much brighter than most imagine. In essence, “modernization theory” is proving correct. Economic development brings expanding levels of education, information, travel, and other experiences that enhance human knowledge, awareness, and intelligence. This “cognitive mobilization” inspires and empowers people to act with purpose and think for themselves, rather than accept received authority and wisdom. In other words, development brings value change that is highly conducive to the emergence and persistence of liberal democracy.

Attitudes towards Institutions, Politics, and Policies analyses the responses of 2,012 Singapore participants for WVS 2020. Comparisons across WVS participant countries and iterations are presented where appropriate to allow for the tracking of shifting or sustaining values across time and space. In general, the survey sample is nationally representative, as the dataset was weighted to mirror the age, gender, and race demographics of the adult resident population in Singapore.

Dentsu Institute (Executive Producer: Naoki Tani), an internal organization of Dentsu Group Inc. (Tokyo: 4324; President & CEO: Toshihiro Yamamoto; Head Office: Tokyo; Capital: 74,609.81 million yen), and the Ikeda Laboratory*(Professor: Ken’ichi Ikeda), a facility engaged in media and social psychology research at Doshisha University (location: Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture; President: Tomoko Ueki), with the collaboration of Dentsu Macromill Insight, Inc., have conducted their own international comparative analysis of results from the World Values Survey (WVS), a survey of a total of over 100 countries and societies. The analysis revealed 9 distinctive trends in Japan.

A unique panel survey conducted in 24 countries by Professor Ronald Inglehart, Founder and First President (1981-2013) of the World Values Survey Association and Martijn Lampert, Co-founder and Research Director of research agency Glocalities reveals the dual impact that the COVID-19 crisis has on values, emotions and the economy.

A new article by Ronald Inglehart, Professor at the University of Michigan and WVSA's Founder and President (1981-2013), was published in the September/October 2020 issue of the Foreign Affairs. An amendment to the article text was published in February 2021.