The World Values Survey (WVS) is a long-term comparative research initiated in 1981 by Professor Ronald Inglehart of the University of Michigan (USA) based on the European Values Survey (EVS) and it quickly became one of the most widely used and authoritative international researches, which covers almost 120 countries/societies (almost 95% of the world’s population). Ukraine joined the World Values Survey (WVS) in 1999 (the fourth wave of the WVS), and participated in the following waves: the fifth in 2006 and the sixth in 2011, and in addition, The European Values Survey (EVS) was conducted in Ukraine in 1996 and in 2008.
The aim of the project is to assess the impact that stability or change of values over time has on the social, political and economic development of countries and societies.