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World Values Survey 2002, Wave 4

Singapore, 2002
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Reference ID
SGP_2002_WVS-W4_v01_M
Producer(s)
Tan Em Ser
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    Survey ID number

    SGP_2002_WVS-W4_v01_M

    Title

    World Values Survey 2002

    Subtitle

    Wave 4

    Country
    Name Country code
    Singapore SGP
    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

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    National.

    Universe

    National Population, Both sexes,18 and more years.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Tan Em Ser Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    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:

    1. The majority group was undersampled, and minority ethnic groups oversampled,
    2. The questionnaire was slightly modified; however, item numbering remains similar to the WVS master questionnaire.
    Response Rate

    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
    Weighting

    For ethnicity, the weight factor was determined at the sample design stage; while that for age was determined after the fieldwork stage.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    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

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End Cycle
    2002-03-14 2002-08-07 Wave 4
    Data Collectors
    Name Affiliation
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences National University of Singapore
    Joshua Research Consultants
    Data Collection Notes

    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

    Estimates of Sampling Error

    Estimated error: 2.6

    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 - Singapore-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
    Director of the WVSA Archive WVSA Data Archive jdiezmed@jdsurvey.net

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_SGP_2002_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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