I did an analysis a few years ago based on 2007 data on desirable qualities in children. The World Values Survey had a similar question, so here are the newer results. For what it is worth, I doubt that the translations are equivalent. So it is quite likely that a word for “thrift” or “obedience”…
Happiness or subjective wellbeing is one of the most difficult things to measure cross-culturally. Every time I see some happiness index I cringe. Gallup results are floating around the Internet, but here are the more transparent results from the World Values Survey. (Here’s more on WVS in the Caucasus). Taking that into consideration, I just…
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. 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…