World Values Survey 2012 - 2013, Wave 6
China, 2012 - 2013
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CHN_2013_WVS-W6_v01_M
World Values Survey 2012 - 2013
Wave 6
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| China | CHN |
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World Values Survey Wave 6 2010-2014 covers 60 countries and societies around the world and more than 85,000 respondents. This is the latest ressource made available for the research community.
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.
2018-09-12
Coverage
National.
National Population, Both sexes,18 and more years
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Prof Shen Mingming | Research Center for Contemporary China, Peking University |
| Wenfang Tang | Department of Political Science, University of Iowa |
| Cheng-Tian Kuo | Department of Political Science, National ChengChi University |
| Pierre F. Landry | Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh |
| Mayling E. Birney | Deparment of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science. |
| Dali Yang | Department of Political Science and International, University of Chicago Center in Beijing |
| Ming Yang | Research Center for Contemporary China, Peking University |
| Jie Yan | Research Center for Contemporary China, Peking University |
| Wan-Ying Yang | Department of Political Science, National ChengChi University |
| Hsin-hao Huang | Department of Civic Education and Leadership, National Taiwan Normal University |
Sampling
Sample size: 2,300.
Primary Sampling Units (PSUs): County level administrative units (municipal districts, county-level cities, counties) Secondary Sampling Units (SSUs): Half-square minutes (HSM) of latitude and longitude Tertiary Sampling Units (TSUs): Spatial square seconds(SSS), approximately 90m*90m Basic Sampling Units: Dwellings in the sampled units What was the final number of clusters or sampling points? 60. For more information on the sampling procedure refer to page 8 of the Technical Report in the related materials.
65.8%
Two weighting methods were used on the database. One of them is base weighting which is the reciprocal of each interviewee’s selection probability (including weight of empty responses) . Post-fieldwork stratification and weighting is based upon statistics found in figures pertaining to population in the 2010 Census. The population is stratified according to the same age groups, gender and education. For more information on weighting refer to the Weighting section of the Technical Report of the related materials.
Survey instrument
For each wave, suggestions for questions are solicited by social scientists from all over the world and a final master questionnaire is developed in English. Since the start in 1981 each successive wave has covered a broader range of societies than the previous one. Analysis of the data from each wave has indicated that certain questions tapped interesting and important concepts while others were of little value. This has led to the more useful questions or themes being replicated in future waves while the less useful ones have been dropped making room for new questions.
The questionnaire is translated into the various national languages and in many cases independently translated back to English to check the accuracy of the translation. In most countries, the translated questionnaire is pre-tested to help identify questions for which the translation is problematic. In some cases certain problematic questions are omitted from the national questionnaire.
WVS requires implementation of the common questionnaire fully and faithfully, in all countries included into one wave. Any alteration to the original questionnaire has to be approved by the EC. Omission of no more than a maximum of 12 questions in any given country can be allowed.
Data collection
| Start | End | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 2012-11-07 | 2013-01-21 | Wave 6 |
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Research Center for Contemporary China | Peking University |
Data appraisal
Estimated error: 2.1
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 Six - China-Pooled Datafile Version: www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV6.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_CHN_2013_WVS-W6_v01_M_WB
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Development Economics Data Group | The World Bank | Documentation of the DDI |
2020-02-12
Metadata version
Version 01 (February 2020)