The past few days have seen a notable increase in cease-fire violations on the frontline of Nagorno Karabakh, with deaths on both sides (although more Azerbaijani deaths). I’m currently in Azerbaijan, but I keep an eye on both Azerbaijani and Armenian social media spaces and these are a few thing that have happened on the…
I’ve written before about how difficult it is to measure attitudes toward homosexuality. But nonetheless, with the new World Values Survey out this week, I looked at some global comparisons asking is homosexuality ever justifiable (in this case 1 = never justifiable, 10 = always justifiable) and here are the results. Take them with a…
Here’s a fun one – are you worried that the government is wiretapping, reading your mail, email. (Let us acknowledge that people might not be comfortable answering this, but…) And here are all the means, 1 very much – 4 not at all. Methodology notes.
The World Values Survey Wave 6 came out yesterday. I did a post on trust in others, but wanted to visualize it too. Dark is more trust. Here are the means for all:
More on methodology here. The WVS media use questions are essentially useless (sorry WVS!) for my research. They ask about frequency of use as an information source and then use of a personal computer. However, since sometimes some people question my analyses about technology use in the Caucasus, these can provide a datapoint from an…
More on methodology here. I’m currently working on 2 different papers that deal with trust of others in Azerbaijan, so I was very excited to see this. As per what literature says, Azerbaijanis have very low trust in strangers and very high trust in family. And here’s the means of the world. Again, 1…
Methodological information here. Noteworthy point 1: Azerbaijanis probably wouldn’t answer truthfully to these questions. Noteworthy point 2: I do not know enough about the organization that collected this data to stand behind it as I would work done by CRRC. But here it is:
The World Values Survey is a large international survey, conducted every few years with a variety of cooperating organizations. In their words: it “is a global research project that explores people’s values and beliefs, their stability or change over time and their impact on social and political development of the societies in different countries of…
Link to full 2013 2012 2011 And here’s some graphics for the devices.
Material deprivation Although many studies use income as a single indicator of socioeconomic status, certainly income is not a complete or direct measure of total economic wellbeing (Falkingham, 1999; Ringen, 1998). We use a consensual poverty measure, where the greater the number of consumable items absent, the greater the degree of material deprivation (Demirchyan &…