# World Value Survey

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**Created:** [June 4, 2018, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-value-survey/815397 "2018-06-04T06:22:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-value-survey/815397/1 "2018-06-04T06:22:15Z")

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I’d never heard of the [World Value Survey](http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/) until recently. But I just downloaded their “Wave 6” raw data of 90,350 people surveyed from 2010-2014. 2232 of these surveyees are from the U.S.A. There is much data: each entry has 430 items, some of them answers to non-quantitative multiple-choice questions.

My interest started due to a recent thread which posed the question: _What sort of Americans call themselves ‘centrist’?_ But it will take me much effort just to wade through the data enough to address that question. With little additional effort I could attempt other analyses as well.

_ **Any ideas of interesting questions to address?** _ Would comparisons between America and Europe be most interesting, or should I just try to characterize Americans? Try to get me motivated or I may abandon the whole “project” before I begin! 🙂 I’m sure there are interesting things that can be done with the data. For example, [Here is a plot showing some trends by country over the recent 35-year period](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABWYOcru7js). But I don’t plan to prepare any interesting graphics.