World Values Survey 2011, Wave 6
Belarus, 2011
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BLR_2011_WVS-W6_v01_M
World Values Survey 2011
Wave 6
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Belarus | BLR |
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. David Rotman, Director of the Center for Sociological and Political Research. | Belarus State University |
| Tatiana Karabchuk Deputy director of the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research. | National Research University Higher School of Economics |
Sampling
Sample size: 1535.
The sample is representative of the adult population of Belarus aged 18+ and the sample size is 1,500 respondents. The survey covers all regions (oblasts) of Belarus based on the administrative and territorial division of the country Minsk, Vitebsk, Mogilev, Gomel, Brest, Grodno oblasts and Minsk (capital city). The number of interviews is distributed by settlements taking into account the number of population residing in these settlements. The distribution was calculated in several stages: 1. The number of interviews for urban and rural areas was allocated taking into account the percentage ratio of the urban and rural population within the universe; 2. The number of interviews for oblasts was allocated taking into account the percentage ratio of the population of all oblasts; 3. Allocation of interviews by settlements. The urban population in each oblast is represented by the following types of towns: capital city, oblast city (centre), large-size town (>100 thousand people), medium-size town (100 - >50 thousand people) and small-size town (50 thousand people). The towns are selected so that they are distributed uniformly throughout each oblast. The number of interviews is determined taking into account the share of the population of each of the above mentioned types of towns. The rural population is represented by rural settlements situated within the range of 20km from the sampled towns. The random route method is used to select the respondent. Moving along the route: the total number of houses on the street is divided by two, the resulting figure is a starting point of the route. The interviewer contacts each flat with a compulsory observance of the principle of three call-backs (at different times, not earlier than in two hours and on different days (weekdays and weekends). Walk along the route is done using a skip interval of n+5 from the realized interview. The respondent within a household is selected using the recent birthday rule.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011-11-18 | 2011-12-15 | Wave 6 |
| Name |
|---|
| Serban Tanasa |
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 - Belarus-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_BLR_2011_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)