DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04636
title: Voice of the People, 2005
title: Archival Version

description: This annual survey, fielded May to August 2005, was
 conducted in 67 countries and the province of Kosovo to solicit public
 opinion on social and political issues. Respondents were asked to
 identify the most important problem facing the world, how often they
 or their family had not had enough to eat in the past year, whether
 they had heard of global institutions such as the United Nations and
 the European Union, and whether their opinions of these institutions
 were positive, negative, or neutral. A series of questions asked
 respondents whether their country was governed by the will of the
 people, whether its elections were free and fair, whether they trusted
 their government, and whether democracy was the best system of
 government. Additional topics addressed crime in the respondent's
 community, threats to the environment, the gap between the rich and
 the poor, and whether immigration was a good or a bad thing for their
 country. Other questions asked whether respondents had done any
 volunteer work in the past year, and whether they considered
 themselves to be religious. Demographic variables include sex, age,
 household income, education level, employment status, and religious
preference.
description: The data contain a weight variable (WEIGHT) that should be
 used in analyzing the data. Weighting schemes vary by country, and the
 following countries did not apply weights to their data: Bosnia and
 Hercegovina, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Greece, Guatemala,
 India, Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Philippines, the
 Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, and
 Venezuela. Of the countries that weighted their data, ICPSR did not
 receive an explanation of the weights used in Austria, Bulgaria,
 Canada, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Finland, Ghana, Ireland, Japan, Lithuania,
 Luxembourg, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Portugal, Serbia, Singapore,
 South Africa, Togo, and the United Kingdom. According to the principal
 investigator, the weighting factor for countries without a specified
weight was the population represented by the sample.
description: The survey was conducted in 67 countries and the province
 of Kosovo, with a minimal sample size of 500 per country. Within each
 country, a nationally representative sample of at least 500 adults,
 male and female, aged 18 and over was used. In some emergent
 countries, where such research conditions were not possible, there
 were stated variations to this (e.g., urban areas only). Similarly, in
 the developed world, interviews were conducted by telephone, Web
 survey, or self-completed questionnaires, while in emergent and
underdeveloped countries, face-to-face interviews were conducted.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Voice of the People, 2005
description: Persons aged 18 and over in 67 countries representing
 seven regions of the world including Western Europe, North America,
Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.
description: face-to-face interview; telephone interview; web-based survey; self-enumerated questionnaire(1) The data available for download are not weighted
 and users will need to weight the data prior to analysis. (2) Sample
 type, weights, and mode of collection vary by country, and detailed
 weighting information was unavailable for 20 countries in this
 survey. Please refer to the codebook for additional information on
 sampling, interviewing, weighting, and collection modes for each
 country. (3) More information about Voice of the People surveys can be
 found on the
 Gallup International
 Association Web site. (4) The subpopulation referred to in the
 Kosovo sample included all ethnic minorities who use the Albanian
 language for public and social purposes except Kosovo Serbs. (5)
 According to the data collection instrument, income categories in the
 variable INGRE are as follows: Low (Bottom quintile/20%), Medium low
 (Second quintile/20%), Medium (Third quintile/20%), Medium high
 (Fourth quintile/20%), and High (Top quintile/20%). (6) For several
 countries, the sample sizes listed in the original documentation
 received from Gallup differ from the actual sample sizes in the
 data. (7) In the variable COUNTRY, code 54 (KOR) referred to South
 Korea, code 61 (VNM) referred to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,
 and code 22 (KVO) referred to Kosovo, which was a province of Serbia
 at the time of the survey. (8) Not all questions were asked in
 Luxembourg, Egypt, Singapore, Columbia, and the Socialist Republic of
 Vietnam. Therefore, data for these countries were missing in several
 variables. (9) The CASEID variable was created for use with online
analysis.