World Values Survey 2006, Wave 5
Cyprus, 2006
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World Values Survey 2006
Wave 5
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Cyprus | CYP |
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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 Cyprus.
The WVS for Cyprus covers national population aged 18 years and over, for both sexes.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Birol Yesilada, Ph.D. | Portland State University |
| Nicos Peristianis | Portland State University |
| Harry Anastasiou | Portland State University |
Sampling
As indicated in our initial plan, representative samples were taken covering both the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot Communities of Cyprus. In the WVS-Cyprus study, a sample of 1,200 people (600 people from both urban and rural areas for each community) were collected for the Islands total population of 900,000. Samples are representative of all the major geographic areas in Cyprus. The general population was divided into subsets, or strata, according to gender, age and place of residence covering all districts of the north and south of Cyprus. After stratifying the population, we selected the samples randomly within the strata. The samples chosen were based on a 95% confidence interval and a sampling error of ± 4.0%.
Remarks about sampling:
Two Survey companies carried out the study under supervision of Dr. Birol Yesilada. On the Greek side of Cyprus, Intercollege Survey Research Center administered 600 face-to-face surveys in teams of 5 surveyors headed by team supervisor. On the Turkish side of Cyprus 550 surveys were carried out by KADEM. The two Research centers coordinated their survey efforts in the past and have
participated in large scale surveys including the Eurobarometer and local survey projects.
Fieldwork:
- We begin from the side of the road with odd numbers (1,3,5,7..)
- We start from the first house at the beginning of the road. Then we leave one house behind, and knock on the next one.
- If the age or the sex of the person is not applicable, we move to the next house. If they refuse to answer the questionnaire, we again move on to the next house.
- Two-storey houses count as 2 separate houses. At the first such house we come across we knock on the door of the downstairs unit; on the next such house, we choose the upstairs unit.
- On blocks of flats, we knock on the door of one flat per floor: specifically, the one that is situated on the right-hand side of the elevator/staircase, of each floor.
- If we do not complete the required number of houses in a particular road, we turn right and we start again from the side where the odd numbers are.
- We do not go to shops, neither to houses whose residents we happen to know (i.e. friends, relatives).
The response rate was 95% - higher than our expected rate of 85%.
Total number of starting names/addresses 1265 - refusal at selected address 65 - full productive interview 1050 - partial productive interview 150.
The Turkish Cypriot sample is weighted to reflect the difference in population size between the two communities. In order to correct between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot respondents we employed a weight to reflect the population ratio of the two communities as: We had 550 valid cases for the Greek Cypriot community and 500 valid cases for the Turkish Cypriot community. These ratios do not represent the distribution of the adult population for the Island (between the two communities). The ratio is 74.7 percent Greek Cypriot and 25.3 percent Turkish Cypriot. Therefore, in order to not lose the 1050 cases after applying our weights, the Greek side's weight needs to be multiplied by 1.4255 and the TC side's by .531955. Those numbers are obtained by setting the Greek side's total n of 550 over the total sample of 1050, then equalizing that ratio (about .52) to the Greek side's .747 of the population, that is .747/.52=1.4255. Likewise, the TC's n of 500 over 1050 (.4769), then set that ratio equalized to .253312 (TC proportion of total population) .253312/.4769= .5312 PLEASE NOTE.
Analysts can treat the Greek and Turkish communities as separate groups if needed. Cases 1-500 are in Turkish language representing the Turkish Cypriot community and cases 501-1050 are in Greek representing the Greek Cypriot community. IF they treat the cases as two separate groups, they need to set weights to 1.00 for both communities.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2006-02-06 | 2006-03-31 |
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.
Data appraisal
+/- 4.0%
Access policy
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Depositor information
| Name |
|---|
| Intercollege Survey Research Center |
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_CYP_2006_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)