U.S. participation in the 8th wave of the World Values Survey

该奖项支持美国参与第八波世界价值观调查（WVS）。WVS于1981年在美国的大力领导和国家科学基金会的支持下发起。在过去的40年里，世界价值观调查的七次浪潮已经成为包含世界大多数人口的国家的大众价值观和态度的唯一数据来源。WVS数据可以进行跨国分析，（1）检查经济和技术变化对人们价值观的影响，（2）分析个人价值观和信仰对社会民主价值观的影响。它仍然是关于世界上人类价值观状况的公共辩论的主要信息来源。《世界价值观》的美国数据由芝加哥大学国家民意研究中心的AmeriSpeak收集。共有2,500名成年人被问及与参加第八波WVS的90多个国家相同的问题。个人被随机挑选参加调查，并可以选择填写在线问卷或接受英语或西班牙语电话采访。密歇根大学社会研究所建立了一个美国数据文件，并存放在西班牙的WVS国际档案馆。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports the participation of the United States in the eighth wave of the World Values Survey (WVS). The WVS was initiated in 1981 with substantial leadership from the United States and with support from the National Science Foundation. Over the last 40 years, the seven waves of the WVS have become the only source of data on mass values and attitudes from countries containing the majority of the world’s population. WVS data make it possible to carryout cross-national analyses that (1) examine the impact of economic and technological change on people’s values, and (2) analyze the impact of individual values and beliefs on the extent to which a society has democratic values. It continues to be a major source of information in public debates about the state of human values in the world.The U.S. data for the WVS is collected by AmeriSpeak, a service of the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. A total of 2,500 adults are asked the same set of questions used in the more than 90 countries participating in the eighth wave of the WVS. Individuals are selected for the survey randomly and are offered the choice of completing an online questionnaire or being interviewed by phone, in either English or Spanish. A U.S. data file is constructed by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan and deposited in the WVS international archive in Spain. This data archive is available to scholars and students throughout the world without charge.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.