European Values Study, 1981 - EVS'81

Personal values, attitudes towards the family, marriage, divorce, sex. Work values. Perception of the future.

Satisfaction ratings, indicators of psychological well-being, health. Range of socio-demographic variables: sex, age, housing tenure and type, terminal education age, household size and composition, marital status, employment status, occupational code for respondent and chief wage earner, workplace details, trade union membership, regional codes, area types, income on a scale. Additional data include: leisure activities, voluntary work, attitudes towards science, war, terrorism, index of internationalism, attitudes towards a shorter working week.

Measurement by: personal values scale, moral justification scale, work values scale, work orientation scale, left-right ( political ) scale, political protest scale, materialist-post-materialist scale, greeley spiritual experience battery Constructed variables in P0830B: C81_1 to C81_51 are constructs which can be used to make comparisons with the same constructs in P1217 named C90_1 to C90_51. Topics of constructs: religiosity, church involvement, moral values, conservatism-progressiveness, confidence in institutions, intolerance, materialism-postmaterialism, political involvement, Bradburn's affect balance scale, marriage, family, abortion, education, work.

Background variables: basic characteristics/ residence/ income/capital assets/ religion/ readership, mass media, and 'cultural' exposure/ organizational membership