World Values Survey 2002, Wave 4
Singapore, 2002
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SGP_2002_WVS-W4_v01_M
World Values Survey 2002
Wave 4
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Singapore | SGP |
Other Household Survey [hh/oth]
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)
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
- 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.
2014-04-29
Coverage
National.
National Population, Both sexes,18 and more years.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Tan Em Ser | Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore |
Sampling
Sample size: 1512
Stratified, random sample of Singapore citizens Lower age cutoff was set at 15. No clusters were used. Substitution was used when the person no longer lives in the address stated or when the case is not contactable after 3 tries. Sample was stratified by ethnicity at the sample design, and stratified by age after completion of fieldwork.
Remarks about sampling:
- The majority group was undersampled, and minority ethnic groups oversampled,
- The questionnaire was slightly modified; however, item numbering remains similar to the WVS master questionnaire.
Response rate is 79%, and non-response rate is 21%.
Total number of starting names/addresses: 2610
- Addresses which could not be traced at all: 183
- Addresses established as empty, demolished or containing no private dwellings: 26
- No contact with selected person: 341
- Refusal at selected address: 379
- Personal refusal by selected respondent: 379
- Full productive interview: 1512
- Partial productive interview: 21
For ethnicity, the weight factor was determined at the sample design stage; while that for age was determined after the fieldwork stage.
Survey instrument
The questionnaire was translated by a specialist translator. It wasn't back translated to english but was pre-tested. The pre-test cases were selected to reflect as far as possible the profile of the population. One pre-test involving 39 cases.
The following WVS questions were excluded: V12, V37- 38, V137-140, V147-162, V163, V168-173, V177-181-190, V200-203, V220-222, V243
Reason(s) not included: Not applicable to the Singapore context. Some questions are politically sensitive. Moreover, the questionnaire was rather long, so most non-core questions were omitted, where possible.
Data collection
| Start | End | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 2002-03-14 | 2002-08-07 | Wave 4 |
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences | National University of Singapore |
| Joshua Research Consultants |
Interviewers were paid according to performance. Calls were made at different times of day to approach address/household. Calls were made on different days of the week. Minimum number of recalls: 3 Interviews weren't supervised, but 305 of the interviews were back-checked.
Data appraisal
Estimated error: 2.6
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 Four - Singapore-Pooled Datafile Version: www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV4.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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Director of the WVSA Archive | WVSA Data Archive | jdiezmed@jdsurvey.net |
Metadata production
DDI_SGP_2002_WVS-W4_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)