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The European Values Study (EVS) and the World Values Survey (WVS) are two long-standing international survey programmes providing comparative data on values, beliefs, and social and political attitudes across countries and over time. Since the early 1980s, their repeated cross-national surveys have generated a major database for comparative social and political research. The scope and longitudinal character of these programmes place particular importance on the quality, reliability, and comparability of survey measurement across national contexts and survey waves.
At the same time, the environment in which comparative surveys are conducted is changing nowadays. Declining response rates, increasing difficulties in reaching particular population groups, new developments in sampling and fieldwork practices, and the growing use of online and mixed-mode designs have become important methodological considerations for international survey programmes. In particular, the recent rounds of the European Values Study and the World Values Survey have accumulated substantial experience with different modes and combinations of modes, providing opportunities for systematic methodological analysis.
This panel invites submissions examining methodological questions arising from the design, implementation, and analysis of the European Values Study and the World Values Survey. It welcomes studies that evaluate the comparability of measurements across countries, survey waves, or modes of data collection; investigate the implications of methodological decisions for substantive estimates; or use methodological experiments and comparative designs to assess different approaches to data collection and measurement.
A central interest of the panel is the relationship between survey methodology and substantive inference. Methodological differences may affect observed distributions of values and attitudes and, consequently, the interpretation of cross-national variation and change over time.
Papers addressing related methodological questions, including measurement equivalence, sampling and coverage, non-response, questionnaire translation, response styles, interviewer and mode effects, weighting, data quality, and new approaches to survey design and data collection, are equally welcome.