Tag Archives: European Values Survey

Values and religion in 2020: an updated map

Posted on December 15, 2021 by colinmathers

In my previous post, I presented results for an updated version of the latent variable analyses I carried out last year on data from the World Values Survey and European Values Study [1-4]. I have re-estimated a latent variable for … Continue reading →

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Modern and pre-modern religious values: an update

Posted on December 9, 2021 by colinmathers

In a previous post, I developed a continuous latent variable for pre-modern/modern religious values based on data for waves 5 to 7 country surveys in the  World Values Survey (WVS) and European Values Study (EVS). I used this data to … Continue reading →

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Religiosity and atheism: revised estimates for 1980-2020

Posted on November 9, 2021 by colinmathers

In previous posts, I have summarized various analyses of the World Values Survey (WVS) and the European Values Study (EVS), altogether including more than 110 countries, and focusing on trends and differences religious affiliation, religious beliefs and practices, as well … Continue reading →

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Age Patterns of Religiosity and Atheism in the USA, Europe and Australia

Posted on May 29, 2021 by colinmathers

It is well known that the proportion of people who are atheist or non-religious in high income countries is generally higher in younger people than older people and rising over time.  So is the decline in religiosity mainly a cohort … Continue reading →

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Premodern/modern religious values and happiness

Posted on May 5, 2021 by colinmathers

I recently came across rankings of countries by average reported happiness produced for The World Happiness Report which was released on March 20, 2021. This is a report produced by independent experts for the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network … Continue reading →

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Fundamentalist values, culture and religion

Posted on October 18, 2020 by colinmathers

In an earlier post, I summarized trends in religiosity (practicing, non-practicing, non-religious and atheist) for countries in the World Values Survey (WVS) and European Values Study (EVS) from 1980 to 2020 [1-4]. In this post, I take a closer look … Continue reading →

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Global trends in religiosity and atheism 1980 to 2020

Posted on September 30, 2020 by colinmathers

Ronald Inglehart has recently published an article in Foreign Affairs called “Giving up on God: the global decline of religion” in which he uses data from the most recent wave of the World Health Surveys (WVS) to claim that between … Continue reading →

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Trends in cultural values across 105 countries: 1980 to 2020

Posted on August 9, 2020 by colinmathers

In a previous post, I examined variations in cultural values across 105 countries in year 2019 using data from all 7 waves of the World Values Survey (WVS)and all 5 waves of the European Values Survey (EVS) [1-4]. I developed … Continue reading →

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Variations in cultural values across 105 countries in 2019

Posted on August 3, 2020 by colinmathers

Working for the World Health Organization over the last 20 years and dealing with national health authorities, I’ve been quite fascinated by the variations across cultures and countries in values and beliefs, and the huge influence they have on willingness … Continue reading →

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