Datasets used for lab exercises.
This dataset combines data on “generalised/social trust” from the latest waves of the World Values Survey and the European Values Study with macro(country)-level data on World Development Indicators (WDI) provided by the World Bank. The main variables of interest taken from the WDI refer to measurements of economic inequality within countries. The dataset allows the conceptual replication of the analysis presented in Chapter 4 (“Community life and social relations”, pp. 49-62) of Wilkinson and Pickett (2010) concerning the relationship between inequality and trust
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This dataset is the one used by Österman (2021) for the analysis underpinning the results reported in his Table 3 and related tables in the Online Supplementary Material. The aim of the article is to use information on educational reforms across European countries as a way to set up a quasi-experimental design testing the effect of education on social trust. With this approach, it aims to overcome the limitations of cross-sectional observational survey data from the European Social Survey by attempting a causal - rather than just correlational - explanation.
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This dataset contains data from the EUROMODULE (1999-2002) surveys conducted in nine countries: Germany (DE) | Austria (AT) | Switzerland (CH) | Sweden (SE) | Spain (ES) | Slovenia (SI) | Korea, Republic of (KR) | Turkey (TR) | Hungary (HU). Out of the total of 366 variables measured, only those 100 were kept in this dataset that were used by Delhey and Newton (2003) in their analysis of the various correlates of “social trust”. The value of the EUROMODULE survey data compared to other comparative surveys that measure social trust is that it offers a much greater variety of explanatory variables that allow Delhey and Newton (2003) to test the relative explanatory power of several complex social theories explaining differences in levels of social trust both at the individual level and at the macro-social level.
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This dataset is the one underpinning the analysis carried out by Mitchell (2021). The article uses the European Social Survey (2002–2016) to test how differences in social trust, both within and between countries influence attitudes about immigrants.
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References
Delhey, Jan, and Kenneth Newton. 2003.
“Who Trusts?: The Origins of Social Trust in Seven Societies.” European Societies 5(2):93–137. doi:
10.1080/1461669032000072256.
Österman, Marcus. 2021.
“Can We Trust Education for Fostering Trust? Quasi-experimental Evidence on the Effect of Education and Tracking on Social Trust.” Social Indicators Research 154(1):211–33. doi:
10.1007/s11205-020-02529-y.
Wilkinson, Richard G., and Kate Pickett. 2010. The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger. New York: Bloomsbury Press.