Slovakia in the World Values Survey – Wave 8
Slovakia has successfully participated in Wave 8 of the World Values Survey (WVS), one of the world’s leading international comparative research projects on human values and beliefs. The survey in Slovakia was implemented by the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology SAS and the DEKK Institute, with principal investigators Pavol Kosnáč, Tatiana Zachar Podolinská and Hugo Gloss.
The World Values Survey is the largest non-commercial, cross-national, time-series study of people’s values, covering almost 120 countries and around 95% of the world’s population. Its data are widely used by researchers, public institutions and international organisations such as the UN and the IMF.
Data collection in Slovakia, which formed part of the APVV-23-0641 SK-DigiTwin Slovak Digital Twin Project (PI Justin E. Lane, Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology SAS), has been completed and has passed all methodological, translation and documentation checks by the World Values Survey Association, obtaining official WVS certification.
With more than 250 questions, this is the most extensive social science survey ever conducted in Slovakia in terms of the number of measured variables. In the coming months, the data will be released for research and public use and will form the core of the first Digital Twin of an entire country in history – and that country will be Slovakia.
Prepared by:
Pavol Kosnáč, IESA SAS
