World Values Survey 2005, Wave 5
United Kingdom, 2005
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World Values Survey 2005
Wave 5
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | GBR |
Other Household Survey [hh/oth]
World Values Survey Wave 5 2009-2005 covers 58 countries and societies around the world and more than 83,000 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)
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.
Sample survey data [ssd]
- Household
- Individual
Version
- v01: 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.
2018-09-12
Version history: -v2018-09-12: Current official release General revision, mostly of missing labels. Inclusion of region, town, interview date in some countries when missing and found. Old releases: 2014-04-29
Coverage
The Survey covers the United Kingdom.
The WVS for the United Kingdom covers national population aged 15 years and over, for both sexes.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Christian Welzel | International University of Bremen |
Sampling
NOP Random Location Approach, which is a quota sample of individuals with randomly selected sampling points. The sample design is essentially a 3-stage design, sampling first parliamentary constituencies, then enumeration districts within those selected constituencies and finally respondents within the enumeration districts: (1) Selection of parliamentary constituencies: The 639 parliamentary constituencies of Greta Britain are classified into the Register General's ten Standard Regions. Within each Standard Region, constituencies are classified into four urban/rural types. From the file of 639 constituencies, a sample of 175 must be drawn by random numbers. (2) Election of enumeration districts: Within each selected constituency, an enumeration district is selected. These EDs are selected at random, but with some stratification control so that the sample of EDs drawn is representative of the sample of constituencies and therefore of GB in demographic terms. Once the Eds have been selected, the profile of the aggregated set of EDs is checked against the national profile to ensure that it is representative. Each ED is a small area, containing on average around 150 households. Each ED is therefore homogenous, with the people living within it being fairly similar in social grade terms. (3) Selection of respondents: For each selected ED, a list of all residential addresses is produced. This listing is taken from the Postal Address File, which is a listing of all addresses within Great Britain, and is updated monthly. The interviewer uses this list to identify the households at which they can interview. As in most of the countries involved, quota sampling had been used to select the respondents, a brief description of the methodology at the beginning of the methodological report seems to be useful. The respondent was selected using quota selection. Respondents were only selected if they matched the quotas given to the interviewers. Concerning substitution, any respondent fitting an appropriate quota profile could be interviewed instead of somebody with the same quotas, but who did not want to participate in the survey. Concerning stratification factors, region and size of town were used to design the sample and select appropriate sampling points.
Remarks about sampling:
Quota sample according to the following criteria: gender, age, professional status of respondent. For practical reasons, two constituencies (Orkney/Shetland and Western Isles) are not included in the sampling frame from which constituencies are selected. From the file of 639 parliamentary constituencies, a sample of 175 must be drawn by random numbers. Within each selected constituency, an enumeration district is selected. These EDs are selected at random, but with some stratification control so that the sample of EDs drawn is representative of the sample of constituencies and therefore of GB in demographic terms.
The sample size for the United Kingdom is N=1041 and includes national population aged 15 years and over, for both sexes.
During and after data collection, representativeness of the sample with respect to nationally based criteria has been checked. Deviations from the population’s distribution (criteria: gender, age, professional status of respondent, region, size of town) were corrected by a weighting variable built with the RIM weighting procedure. The population characteristics were obtained from GB mid 2003 population estimates; Office of National Statistics 2003 (class) and 2003 population estimates; FRS 2003.
Survey instrument
The order of the questions strictly followed the master questionnaire. No additional questions had been inserted in the programmed questionnaire, not even quota relevant questions. Quota had been recorded by a separate quota sheet. WVS question number or description of question: V50 to V54 V57 to V58 V91 to V94 V105 to V113 V115 V117 V122 to V124 V164 to V176 V178 to V183 V188 to V191 V193 to V197 V210 to V221 V231 to V233 V240 V248 to V252 Reason(s) not included: Short questionnaire, GfK survey
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2005-12-01 | 2005-12-18 |
| Name |
|---|
| GfK NOP UK |
The main method of data collection in the WVS survey is face-to-face interview at respondent’s home / place of residence. Respondent’s answers could be recorded in a paper questionnaire (traditional way) or by CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interview). The approval of the Scientific Advisory Committee in writing is necessary for application of any methods of data collection other than face-to-face interview. Following the sampling, each country is left with a representative national sample of its public. These persons are then interviewed during a limited time frame decided by the Executive Committee of the World Values Survey using the uniformly structured questionnaires. The survey is carried out by professional organizations using face-to-face interviews or phone interviews for remote areas. Each country has a Principal Investigator (social scientists working in academic institutions) who is responsible for conducting the survey in accordance with the fixed rules and procedures. During the field work, the agency has to report in writing according to a specific check-list. Internal consistency checks are made between the sampling design and the outcome and rigorous data cleaning procedures are followed at the WVS data archive. No country is included in a wave before full documentation has been delivered. This means a data set with the completed methodological questionnaire and a report of country-specific information (for example important political events during the fieldwork, problems particular to the country). Once all the surveys are completed, the Principal Investigator has access to all surveys and data. Non-response is an issue of increasing concern in sample surveys. Investigators are expected to make every reasonable effort to minimize non-response. In countries using a full probability design, no replacements are allowed. PIs should plan on as many call-backs as the funding will allow. In countries using some form of quota sampling, every effort should be made to interview the first contact.
Access policy
World Values Survey
World Values Survey http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSContents.jsp Cost: None
Data Access
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 Five - Country-Pooled Datafile Version: www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV5.jsp. Madrid: JD Systems Institute.
Disclaimer and copyrights
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
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Director of the WVSA Archive | WVSA Data Archive | jdiezmed@jdsurvey.net | http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org |
Metadata production
DDI_GBR_2005_WVS-W5_v01_M_WB
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Development Economics Data Group | The World Bank | Documentation of the DDI |
2020-02-19
Metadata version
Version 01 (February 2020)