Values and Quality of Life
This page refers to two surveys: the first was conducted by the European Value Systems Study Group (EVSSG), chaired by Prof Jan Kerkhofs, (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium) and the second by the Working Group on Values and Social Problem Indicators in Contemporary Europe (VSPICE), chaired by Prof Walter Ruegg, (Universität Bern, Switzerland) The Survey Research Unit (SRU) at the Polytechnic of North London (PNL) provided consultancy work on research design, data management and statistical analysis.
European Value Systems Study Group
Continuing programme of research into values, concentrating on spiritual and moral values, including aspects of psychological well-being. The EVSSG work was funded by a private family trust and developed into the Gallup World Quality of Life Survey [sic] and eventually to the current European Values Study. and European Quality of Life Surveys (EQLS). Fieldwork for the EVSSG studies was carried out by Gallup and associates in various countries of Western Europe:
Publications
Abrams M, Gerard D and Timms N (Eds)
Values and Social Change in Britain
Macmillan 1985
Harding S D and George C
European Values Pilot Survey: Comments on the British Data
Private report from PNL/SRU to the European Value Systems Study Group, April 1981
Harding S D and Phillips D R
Contrasting Values in Western Europe: Unity Diversity and Change
Macmillan 1985
Phillips D R
Values and Social Problem Indicators in Contemporary Europe: the British Pilot Survey Research Report No 11, Survey Research Unit, Polytechnic of North London, July 1981
Values and Social Problem Indicators in Contemporary Europe
The VSPICE development work at PNL/SRU was funded by grants from the Thyssen Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundation. The main VSPICE survey was carried out by universities and research agencies in their respective countries. The pilot survey was carried out in the UK by PNL/SRU and NOP, and the final core questionnaire of 40 items for use in all countries was designed by PNL/SRU. Each country was responsible for funding its own survey, but despite our input, no funding was forthcoming from ESRC for the main survey in the UK.
European Value Systems Study Group
Continuing programme of research into values, concentrating on spiritual and moral values, including aspects of psychological well-being. The EVSSG work was funded by a private family trust and developed into the Gallup World Quality of Life Survey [sic] and eventually to the current European Values Study. and European Quality of Life Surveys (EQLS). Fieldwork for the EVSSG studies was carried out by Gallup and associates in various countries of Western Europe:
Publications
Abrams M, Gerard D and Timms N (Eds)
Values and Social Change in Britain
Macmillan 1985
Harding S D and George C
European Values Pilot Survey: Comments on the British Data
Private report from PNL/SRU to the European Value Systems Study Group, April 1981
Harding S D and Phillips D R
Contrasting Values in Western Europe: Unity Diversity and Change
Macmillan 1985
Phillips D R
Values and Social Problem Indicators in Contemporary Europe: the British Pilot Survey Research Report No 11, Survey Research Unit, Polytechnic of North London, July 1981
Values and Social Problem Indicators in Contemporary Europe
The VSPICE development work at PNL/SRU was funded by grants from the Thyssen Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundation. The main VSPICE survey was carried out by universities and research agencies in their respective countries. The pilot survey was carried out in the UK by PNL/SRU and NOP, and the final core questionnaire of 40 items for use in all countries was designed by PNL/SRU. Each country was responsible for funding its own survey, but despite our input, no funding was forthcoming from ESRC for the main survey in the UK.