World Values Survey 2003, Wave 4
Saudi Arabia, 2003
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World Values Survey 2003
Wave 4
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Saudi Arabia | SAU |
Other Household Survey [hh/oth]
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)
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.
2014-04-29
Version history:
-v2018-09-12:Current official release
General revision, mostly of missing labels. Inclusion of region, interview date in some countries when missing and found. Creation of new variables for Town (N_TOWN) and Urban/Rural (v248) when present in country files.
Previous releases:
2014-04-29: Official release
NOTE: Study on values realized in the countries of Europe by EVS research network is not included into the current data-set and is avaliable for both downloading and online-analysis at: http://www.europeanvaluesstudy.eu
Coverage
National.
National Population, both sexes,15 and more years.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Abdullah A. Al-Otaiby | Umm al Qura University - Department of Social Work College of Social Science |
Sampling
Sample size: 1502
Each City was divided into Administrative units. Each Administrative unit was divided in Clusters. Each Cluster was divided in Blocks. The interviewer received a map of the Cluster with the block to be surveyed specified. Sample per cluster was also specified. The interviewer at the beginning of the interviews asked the family member met to give him all household adults aged 15+, then the interviewer lists all names of adults in the random selection table. In the first part of the questionnaire the interviewer draws 2 lines (vertical of household members & horizontal of questionnaire serial number. This intersection of these two lines identifies the number of the person to be interviewed. In additional to the above, another two screening questions used to identify the respondent.
Questions used to identify the respondents:
- Do you or anyone in your household or close relatives / or friends work for any of the following industries? -Advertising agency -Research agency -Media house / TV / Radio / Publishing -Religious organizations -Government agencies
- Have you been interviewed by a market research agency in the last 6 months?
If the respondent mentioned No in QA and No in QB only in this case he qualifies to be a respondent. Regional quotas were specified to respective field supervisors. Hand tallies were used to control the following factors Gender - Age and Nationality.
Remarks about sampling: Sampling by clusters
Only refusals and incomplete interviews were the limiting factors to realizing the sample.
- Addresses established as empty, demolished or containing no private dwellings: 117
- Selected respondent away during survey period: 150
- Refusal at selected address: 128
- Personal refusal by selected respondent: 180
- Full productive interview: 1502
- Partial productive interview: 60
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2003-03-20 | 2003-05-10 | Wave 4 |
| Name |
|---|
| PAN Arab Research Center |
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 Four - Saudi Arabia-Pooled Datafile Version: www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV4.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_SAU_2003_WVS-W4_v01_M_WB
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Development Economics Data Group | The World Bank | Documentation of the DDI |
2020-02-19
Metadata version
Version 01 (February 2020)