World Values Survey 2010, Wave 6
Qatar, 2010
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QAT_2010_WVS-W6_v01_M
World Values Survey 2010
Wave 6
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Qatar | QAT |
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 |
|---|---|
| Abdoulaye Diop (Ph.D.) Research Associate Professor - Head of Research Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI) | Qatar University |
| Darwish Alemadi, SESRI | Qatar University |
Sampling
Sample size: 1060
The sample for the 2010 Qatar World Values Survey is designed to ensure the reliability and representativeness of statistical results derived from the data. The sampling frame for the survey comes from the Electricity and Water Company (Kahramaa). Since Kahramaa is the sole provider of water and electricity service in Qatar, this frame covers almost all Qatari households. The State of Qatar is divided into seven administrative municipalities, each further divided into many zones. This information is used to carry out proportionate stratified sampling, which ensures representativeness in the sample and increases the accuracy of statistical estimates. Stratification does not imply any departure from probability sampling; rather, it simply requires that the population be divided into subpopulations, or strata, and that probability sampling be conducted independently within each stratum. In this survey, we used zones for stratification purposes. Within each zone (stratum), a respondent is randomly selected via two-stage sampling. In the first stage, households are randomly selected with proportionate stratification. That is, a stratum containing a given percentage of households in the population is represented by the same proportion of the total number of sampled households. In the second stage, an adult (18 years or older) within each household is randomly selected. At this stage, all adults in the household have the same chance of being selected. A total of 1,455 households were sampled and 1,060 interviews completed, for a final response rate (using AAPOR Response Rate 4) of 73%. Based on the number of completed interviews, the survey has a sampling error of ±3.0 percentage points. This margin of error estimate accounts for the design effect associated with the use of strata and sample data weights.
73%
Weighting by selection probability, adjustment for non-response
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2010-12-06 | 2010-12-28 | Wave 6 |
| Name |
|---|
| Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University |
Data appraisal
Estimated error: 3.1
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 - Qatar-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_QAT_2010_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)