World Values Survey 1996, Wave 3
Croatia, 1996
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HRV_1996_WVS-W3_v01_M
World Values Survey 1996
Wave 3
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Croatia | HRV |
Other Household Survey [hh/oth]
World Values Survey Wave 3 1995-1998 covers 56 countries and societies around the world and more than 77,800 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
- v01: 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.
Version history: 2014-04-29: Official release 2014-09-21. 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
This survey covers Croatia.
The WVS for Croatia covers national population, aged 18 years and over, for both sexes.
Producers and sponsors
| Name |
|---|
| Prof. Vesna Pusic |
Sampling
For the purpose of this survey research the design of stratified random sampling was applied. First, the territory of the Republic of Croatia was divided into 7 distinct geographic regions or sets of regions, and these were:
- Istra;
- Rijeka and surrounding;
- Dalmacija;
- Slavonija and Podravina;
- Zagreb, Zagorje and Prigorje;
- Medimurje and Moslavina;
- Zumberak, Kordun, Banija and Lika.
Each of the regions covers various number of small, medium, and large cities/settlements (small with less than 2000 inhabitants; medium with 2000-30.000; and large with more than 30.000 inhabitants). So, two-way stratification: by region, and by size of cities/settlements, was used. By the data from the Census 91 outside of ex-occupied regions of The Republic of Croatia there live 4.390.651 of inhabitants.
The geographic distribution of all the inhabitants is supposed to be know from the Census. The people live in 5979 cities/settlements of Croatia: 1.703.962 of them live in large cities, 967.621 live in medium size cities/settlements, and the rest of 1.719.068 live in small ones. It is obvious that 39% of inhabitants live in large, 22% in medium, and 39% in small cities. In each region the number of inhabitants, as well as the number of cities of a certain size varies, and the distribution of inhabitants by size of city for many reasons differs a lot. But, the population to be sampled for this survey consists only of adult persons (older than 18) and is of the size N=3.590.366.
There is the assumption that the geographic distribution of adult persons is the same as the distribution of all the persons. The planned fixed size of the entire stratified sample was N=1200 of adult persons, for what the proportionate allocation of units, according to the Census data, was constructed. The cities were sampled at random using random digit generator with probabilities proportionate to the size (the measure of size being the number of inhabitants) to ensure that in the further stage of the sampling procedure every person has got the same probability of selection. The number of cities sampled was determined considering the relevant traveling costs. It was decided that every large city (with more than 30.000 inhabitants) has to be included in the sample by imperative. In the regions without such cities, the same rule for the medium size of city/settlement was applied.
The interviewers contacted 1495 persons and 306 of them refused to participate in the survey. The refusal rate was 20.4%, which is an approximately usual rate in such kind of survey in Croatia.
The post-stratification technique was used for the variable “education” combined by variable “sex”. The basis for forming of the weights were Census 1991 data corrected by the exclusion of the population from the occupied territories, as well as by the application of the trend method using Census data from 1971 and 1981. The education level was divided in three categories:
- primary school or less
- secondary school
- graduates (2 or 4 years) and more
Weights for the three educational levels:
MALE FEMALE TOTAL- 0.191573 0.281446 0.473019
- 0.234819 0.179323 0.414142
- 0.062980 0.049714 0.112694
Survey instrument
The WVS questionnaire was in Croatian. Some special variable labels have been included, such as: V56 neighbors: Muslims and V149 Institution: The European Union. Special categories labels are V203/V204 Geographical affinity. Country Specific Variables are: V210 a V212 Political Parties. The variable 206 born in this country is also different. The sample was designed to be representative of the entire adult population, i.e. 18 years and older, of your country. The lower age cut-off for the sample was 18 and there was not any upper age cut-off for the sample. The ethnic group of the respondent was not asked in the interview. In the cases of Eastern Europe Countries where the ethnic group is missing the language chosen for interview is the only indicator available to control the ethnic composition of the samples. Nevertheless, native language indicated in the cesus of 1989 and language chosen for interview are not exactly the same, since the first is rather differentiated whereas for the last the alternatives to choose between where only the national language or Russian.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 1996-12-05 | 1996-12-15 |
| Name |
|---|
| Institute for the Culture of Democracy |
The main method of data collection in the WVS survey is face-to-face interview at respondent’s home / place of residence. Respondent’s answers could be recorded in a paper questionnaire (traditional way) or by CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interview). The approval of the Scientific Advisory Committee in writing is necessary for application of any methods of data collection other than face-to-face interview. Following the sampling, each country is left with a representative national sample of its public. These persons are then interviewed during a limited time frame decided by the Executive Committee of the World Values Survey using the uniformly structured questionnaires. The survey is carried out by professional organizations using face-to-face interviews or phone interviews for remote areas. Each country has a Principal Investigator (social scientists working in academic institutions) who is responsible for conducting the survey in accordance with the fixed rules and procedures. During the field work, the agency has to report in writing according to a specific check-list. Internal consistency checks are made between the sampling design and the outcome and rigorous data cleaning procedures are followed at the WVS data archive. No country is included in a wave before full documentation has been delivered. This means a data set with the completed methodological questionnaire and a report of country-specific information (for example important political events during the fieldwork, problems particular to the country). Once all the surveys are completed, the Principal Investigator has access to all surveys and data. Non-response is an issue of increasing concern in sample surveys. Investigators are expected to make every reasonable effort to minimize non-response. In countries using a full probability design, no replacements are allowed. PIs should plan on as many call-backs as the funding will allow. In countries using some form of quota sampling, every effort should be made to interview the first contact.
Data appraisal
+/- 2,9%
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 Three - Country-Pooled Datafile Version: www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV3.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 | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Director of the WVSA Archive | WVSA Data Archive | jdiezmed@jdsurvey.net | http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org |
Metadata production
DDI_HRV_1996_WVS-W3_v01_M_WB
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Development Economics Data Group | The World Bank | Documentation of the DDI |
2020-02-26
Metadata version
Version history: 2014-04-29: Official release 2014-09-21. 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'