World Values Survey 2000, Wave 4
Mexico, 2000
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MEX_2000_WVS-W4_v01_M
World Values Survey 2000
Wave 4
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Mexico | MEX |
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 |
|---|---|
| Prof. Alejandro Moreno, Departamento de Ciencia Política | Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México |
Sampling
Sample size: 1535
It was a multi-stage sampling procedure. The first stage was the selection of polling points based on the list of electoral sections defined by the Federal Elections Institute. The sections were previously stratified as urban (70 percent) and rural (30 percent). Each section is relatively homogeneous in size, with about 800 registered voters in 63,619 sections that cover all the countrys adult population. Respondents included, of course, also adults non registered as voters. We selected 155 electoral sections in a systematically random fashion in each stratum, based on the list arranged proportionally to size of population. In the second stage we selected the household with a systematic random selection, based on a standard strategy of walking around the housing districts selected in the sample. In the third stage, interviewers selected adult respondent in each household. Interviewers selected an adult using random selection method. Also control quotas according to age and gender in districts where random selection of interviewers was disproportionately leaning towards a specific group. The selected people was at least 18 years old, had to live in the household, and in middle-upper class districts. The interviewers made sure that no domestic employees were interviewed. Interviews were not applied in business or offices, unless they were the same as the respondents home. Substitution was permitted. The interviewers were not able to get to it (the town of Juan N. Méndez in the state of Puebla) because of the absence of roads and transportation. It was substituted with a more accessible town (Olintla) with the same socio-economic level, in the same region, state and electoral district. Substitution of households and respondents were also employed, in the case where either one of them was registered as a no contact or a refusal and remained under those categories after call backs or returns.
Remarks about sampling:
- Final numbers of clusters or sampling points: 155
- Sample unit from office sampling: Address.
The survey had a non-response rate of 34% (14% refusals, 19% no-contacts, and 1% incomplete interviews which were not included in the sample). Based on selection during fieldwork the sample overrepresets the highest category of education, which tends to be common in México: more highly educated people are likely to respond survey questionnaires. The data were weighted by education according to census estimates prior to the 2000 census figures were released.
A weighting variable based on education levels projected for year 2000 is included in the SPSS dataset.
Survey instrument
The WVS questionnaire was translated from the English questionnaire by a member of the research team. The Mexican questionnaire for 2000 WVS was based on previous versions used in 1990 and 1995 in México. The translated questionnaire was back-translated into English and the translated questionnaire was also pre-tested in a pilot study. It was carried out 40 interviews, 30 of those administered in rural areas in order to check how language and visual cards worked. The other 10 interviews were conducted in urban areas according to our usual fieldwork requirements. The four states where the pilot study was carried out are located in the central part of the country. Some questions caused particular problems, rather than translation problems were the meaning of it: Variable V163 rates the political system as it was under the former regimes or 10 years ago, depending on the country. The Mexican translation referred to 10 years ago, when the PRI did not have any competition. There have been some country-specific questions included such as items on media exposure: v217 a to v217f; items on Mexicos economic ties with the United States: v222a to v222I aand Party identification v222m to v222p. The sample was designed to be representative of the entire adult population, i.e. 18 years and older, of your country. The lower age cut-off for the sample was 18 and there was an upper age cut-off for the sample 94 years. Some sampling points included indigenous communities. We did not administer interviews in a language other than Spanish. This may caused some selected respondents to decline the interview, since they did not speak Spanish but an indigenous language. This problem was minimal.
Data collection
| Start | End | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 2000-01-14 | 2000-02-07 | Wave 4 |
| Name |
|---|
| Department of Polling, Newspaper Reforma |
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 - Mexico-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_MEX_2000_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)