Activity: Specific Themes

Main Objective: 

• • Investigating the cultural changes in contemporary Europe, using both longitudinal (in dynamics) and transversal (comparison across European societies) perspectives, with a focus on Romania.

Methodological options:

• • Secondary data analysis, using large scale data sets, particularly the values surveys (EVS/WVS), which has the advantage to include Romania starting with the 1990-1993 wave (EVS/WVS is the only large scale data set source which includes data for Romania starting with the beginning of the 1990s).

  • Data analysis of a survey of the Romanian irregular (circulatory) migrants. The survey was carried out in 2008, using a convenience sample, and a very short version of the EVS 2008 questionnaire.

Duration: October 2007 - October 2010

Team: Bogdan Voicu (coordinator), Mălina Voicu, Mircea Comşa, Raluca Popescu, Marian Vasile, Claudiu Tufiş, Paula Tufiş, Horaţiu Rusu, Monica Şerban

Outcomes:

Publications: they are included in the publication list of the Romanian Group for Studying Social Values

Databases:

EVS 2008:                 questionnaire (RO)       database (.sav)    .sps syntax for English lables    fieldwork specifications

Migrants' values survey:        questionnaire (RO)   database (sav)