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Technical Note Fieldwork, Sampling, Independent Variables Weighting The World Values Surveys provide a broader range of variation than has ever before been available for analyzing the values and attitudes of mass publics. The 1990-93 surveys were carried out in 43 societies representing almost 70 percent of the world's population and covering the full range of variation, from societies with per capita incomes as low as $300 per year, to societies with per capita incomes as high as $30,000 per year; and from long-established democracies with maJ:ket economies. to ex-socialist states and authoritarian states. The 1981-1984 surveys provide time series data for 22 of these societies, enabling us to analyze the changes in values and attitudes that took place during the years between the two sets of surveys. The World Values Surveys grew out of a study launched by the European Values Systems Study Group (EVSSG) under the leadership of Jan Kerkhofs and Ruud de Moor, with an advisory committee consisting of Gordon Heald, Juan Linz, Elisabeth NoelleNeumann , Jacques Rabier,and Helene Riffault. In 1981, the EVSSG carried out surveys in ten West European societies; it evoked such widespread interest that it was replicated in 14 additional countries. Findings from these surveys suggested that predictable cultural changes were taking place: many variables showing large intergenerational differences, and were strongly correlated with Postmaterialist values. To monitor possible changes, a new wave of surveys was designed, building on findings from the first wave, but this time designed to be carried out globally. The second wave of surveys was designed and coordinated by the following steering committee: Ruud de Moor, chair; Karel Dobbelaere, Loek Halman, Stephen Harding, Felix Heunks, Ronald Inglehart, Jan Kerkhofs, Renate Koecher, Jacques Rabier, and Noel Timms. Inglehart organized the surveys in non-European countries and in several East European countries. Most of the first wave World Values surveys were carried out in Spring, 1981, but fieldwork for the South Korean survey took place in 1982 and fieldwork for the Argentine survey was in 1984. Similarly, most of the second wave surveys were carried out in 1990, but two (the Swiss and Polish surveys) completed their fieldwork in 1989; and two surveys (those in Russia and Turkey) were completed in early 1991, while another (in 467 468 Human Values and Beliefs Slovenia) was carried out in early 1992 and still another (in Romania) was carried out in Spring, 1993. Fieldwork and Principal Investigators for the 1990 Surveys Survey organizations, sample sizes, fieldwork period,and the principal investigators for each country are shown below. If not otherwise noted, the investigator is affiliated with the institution that carried out fieldwork: ARGENTINA-Instituto Gallup de la Argentina (Buenos Aires) n = 1,001; FebruaryApril , 1991. Principal investigator, Marita Carballo de Cilley, Catholic University of Argentina. AUSTRIA-Fessel + GFK Institut (Vienna) n = 1,460; June-July, 1990. Principal investigators , Paul Zulehner, Christian Friesl, University of Vienna. BELARUS-Institute of Sociology, Belarus Academy of Sciences (Minsk) n = 1,015; October-November, 1990. Principal investigator, Andrei Vardomatski. BELGIUM-Dimaraso-Gallup, Belgium (Brussels) n =2,792; June, 1990. Principal investigators , Jan Kerkhofs and Karel Dobbelaere, University of Leuven; and Jacques-Rene Rabier, formerly of the Commission of the European Communities. BRAZIL-Instituto Gallup de Opiniao Publica (Sao Paolo) n = 1,782; October, 1991January , 1992. Principal investigator, Carlos Eduardo Meirelles Matheus. BRITAIN-Gallup (London) n = 1,484; June-September, 1990. Principal investigators, David Barker, Stephen Harding, Gordon Heald, and Noel Timms, University of Leicester. BULGARIA-National Public Opinion Center (Sofia) n = 1,034; August, 1990. Principal investigators, Andrei Raichev, Kancho Stoichev. CANADA-Gallup-Canada (Toronto) n =1,730; May-June, 1990. Principal investigators Neil Nevitte, University of Calgary and Ronald Inglehart, University of Michigan. CHILE-Centro de Estudios de la Realidad Contemporanea (Santiago) n = 1,500; May, 1990. Principal investigators, Carlos Huneeus and Marta Lagos, Academia de Humanismo Cristiano. CHINA-China Statistical Information Center (Beijing) n =1,000; July-December, 1990. Principal investigators Jiang Xingrong, Xiang Zongde, and Ronald Inglehart. CZECHOSLOVAKIA-Association for Independent Social Analysis (Prague) n = 1,396; September, 1990. Principal investigators, Vladimir Rak, Marek Boguszak and Ivan Gabal, Association for Independent Social Analysis; and Blanka Filipcova, Institute of Sociology , Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences; and Hans Dieter Klingemann, Berlin Science Center for Social Research. DENMARK-Socialforskningsinstituttet (Danish National Institute of Social Research), (Copenhagen) n = 1,030; April-May, 1990. Principal investigators, Ole Riis and Peter Gundelach, University of Aarhus. ESTONIA-Mass Communication Research and Information Center (Tallinn) n =1,008; June...