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World Values Survey 2000, Wave 4

Iran, Islamic Rep., 2000
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Reference ID
IRN_2000_WVS-W4_v01_M
Producer(s)
Taghi Azadarmaki, Mansoor Moaddel
Metadata
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  • Identification

    Survey ID number

    IRN_2000_WVS-W4_v01_M

    Title

    World Values Survey 2000

    Subtitle

    Wave 4

    Country
    Name Country code
    Iran, Islamic Rep. IRN
    Study type

    Other Household Survey [hh/oth]

    Series Information

    World Values Survey Wave 4 1999-2004 covers 41 countries and societies around the world and more than 60,000 respondents. The series includes the following waves: Wave 6 (2010-2014) Wave 5 (2005-2009) Wave 4 (1999-2004) Wave 3 (1995-1998) Wave 2 (1990-1994) Wave 1 (1981-1984)

    Abstract

    The World Values Survey (www.worldvaluessurvey.org) is a global network of social scientists studying changing values and their impact on social and political life, led by an international team of scholars, with the WVS association and secretariat headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. The survey, which started in 1981, seeks to use the most rigorous, high-quality research designs in each country. The WVS consists of nationally representative surveys conducted in almost 100 countries which contain almost 90 percent of the world’s population, using a common questionnaire. The WVS is the largest non-commercial, cross-national, time series investigation of human beliefs and values ever executed, currently including interviews with almost 400,000 respondents. Moreover the WVS is the only academic study covering the full range of global variations, from very poor to very rich countries, in all of the world’s major cultural zones. The WVS seeks to help scientists and policy makers understand changes in the beliefs, values and motivations of people throughout the world. Thousands of political scientists, sociologists, social psychologists, anthropologists and economists have used these data to analyze such topics as economic development, democratization, religion, gender equality, social capital, and subjective well-being. These data have also been widely used by government officials, journalists and students, and groups at the World Bank have analyzed the linkages between cultural factors and economic development.

    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]

    Unit of Analysis

    Household Individual

    Version

    Version Description
    • v2.1: Edited, anonymous dataset for public distribution. All deposited data has been made anonymous at the PI side and the archive deposited files have no means to trace the respondents.
    Version Date

    2014-04-29

    Version Notes

    Version history: -v2018-09-12:Current official release General revision, mostly of missing labels. Inclusion of region, interview date in some countries when missing and found. Creation of new variables for Town (N_TOWN) and Urban/Rural (v248) when present in country files. Previous releases: 2014-04-29: Official release NOTE: Study on values realized in the countries of Europe by EVS research network is not included into the current data-set and is avaliable for both downloading and online-analysis at: http://www.europeanvaluesstudy.eu

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    Iran

    Universe

    National Population, Both sexes,16 and more years

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Taghi Azadarmaki Institute of Social Research and Studies, University of Teheran
    Mansoor Moaddel Department of Sociology, Eastern Michigan University

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    Sample size: 2532

    Sample: 2600 cases were designed for 30 provinces. For two of them the data could not be gathered and so have been dropped. We have considered the sample by age and sex, and rural/urban distributions. With choosing the block and zones in each part of the places in cities and villages we have clarified the number of the interviews in each family in terms of age and sex and finally asked to fill out the questionnaire.

    Remarks about sampling: After finishing the survey, 2535 questionnaires were chosen.

    Response Rate

    65 people in our survey left the survey during the interview. We are not accounting the people rejecting to be interviewed, because we could replace them with someone else with the same qualities.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    For each wave, suggestions for questions are solicited by social scientists from all over the world and a final master questionnaire is developed in English. Since the start in 1981 each successive wave has covered a broader range of societies than the previous one. Analysis of the data from each wave has indicated that certain questions tapped interesting and important concepts while others were of little value. This has led to the more useful questions or themes being replicated in future waves while the less useful ones have been dropped making room for new questions. The questionnaire is translated into the various national languages and in many cases independently translated back to English to check the accuracy of the translation. In most countries, the translated questionnaire is pre-tested to help identify questions for which the translation is problematic. In some cases certain problematic questions are omitted from the national questionnaire. WVS requires implementation of the common questionnaire fully and faithfully, in all countries included into one wave. Any alteration to the original questionnaire has to be approved by the EC. Omission of no more than a maximum of 12 questions in any given country can be allowed.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2000-01-01 2000-02-28
    Data Collectors
    Name
    Institute of Social Research and Studies, University of Teheran
    Data Collection Notes

    During fieldwork we have had some difficulties. Because in the villages some people could not fill out the questionnaire and they did not know us. Hence, we needed someone else to help us (to support us in the new places).

    Data appraisal

    Estimates of Sampling Error

    Estimated Error: 2,0

    Access policy

    Location of Data Collection

    World Values Survey

    Archive where study is originally stored

    World Values Survey http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSContents.jsp Cost: None

    Data Access

    Citation requirements

    Inglehart, R., C. Haerpfer, A. Moreno, C. Welzel, K. Kizilova, J. Diez-Medrano, M. Lagos, P. Norris, E. Ponarin & B. Puranen et al. (eds.). 2014. World Values Survey: Round Four - Country-Pooled Datafile Version: www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV4.jsp. Madrid: JD Systems Institute.

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer

    The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    Director of the WVSA Archive WVSA Data Archive jdiezmed@jdsurvey.net http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_IRN_2000_WVS-W4_v01_M_WB

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Development Economics Data Group The World Bank Documentation of the DDI
    Date of Metadata Production

    2020-02-19

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 01 (February 2020)

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