World Values Survey 2012, Wave 6
Romania, 2012
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World Values Survey 2012
Wave 6
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Romania | ROU |
Other Household Survey [hh/oth]
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. Bogdan Voicu, Senior Researcher, Romanian Academy of Science, Research Institute for Quality of Life Associate Professor, Department of Sociology | 'Lucian Blaga’ University of Sibiu |
| Prof. Mircea Comşa, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology | Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj |
| Prof. Claudiu Tufiş, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science | University of Bucharest |
Sampling
Sample size: 1503
- Selection of voting precincts within each stratum. PSU selection type: probability proportional to size (PPS); size is the number of registered adults. 2. Individuals were selected within the voting precincts.
Among the 2073 addresses to be contacted, 547 did not finalize with questionnaire application
Step 1: Strata weight (w.strata). Data were weighted at strata level in order to reproduce the initial structure of the sample (128 theoretical strata based on 18 cultural areas and 7 locality types). Lowest weight = 0.668, highest 1.336.
Step 2: Demographic weights (w.ins). Data were weighted in order to reproduce the demographic structure of adult population. We considered population distribution by sex (male, female), age (18-34, 35-49, 50-64, 65+) and locality type (urban, rural) (2 x 4 x 2 = 16 cells). Lowest weight = 0.701, highest 1.840.
Step 3: Final weights (w.strata.ins). It is equal to the product of the previous weights. Lowest weight = 0.468, highest 2.048.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2012-20-01 | 2012-12-21 | Wave 6 |
| Name |
|---|
| Metromedia Transilvania |
Face-to-face,computer-assisted,Respondent reading questionnaire.
According to the Romanian academic data collecting unwritten norms proposed by the Public Opinion Barometer teams in mid 1990s and still valid, there are two steps of controlling the quality and reliability of data provided by the fieldwork interviewers in order to avoid fraud. First, the data collecting agency does its internal checks. Second, an external agency provides supplementary supervision. In the case of WVS Romania 2012, this role was assumed by AB Research (ABR; http://www.abresearch.ro), represented by Ana Bulai. For more information on the data collection activity refer to the Field Report in the related materials section.
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 Six - Romania-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_ROU_2012_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)