Harmonization in the World Values Survey

Kseniya Kizilova; Jaime Diez-Medrano; Christian Welzel; Christian Haerpfer

doi:10.1002/9781119712206.ch3

Harmonization in the World Values Survey

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Harmonization in the World Values Survey. / Kizilova, Kseniya; Diez-Medrano, Jaime; Welzel, Christian et al.
Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences. ed. / Irina Tomescu-Dubrow; Christof Wolf; Kazimierz M. Slomczynski; J. Craig Jenkins. 1. ed. New York: Wiley Blackwell Japan, 2024. p. 39-56.

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Kizilova, K, Diez-Medrano, J, Welzel, C & Haerpfer, C 2024, Harmonization in the World Values Survey. in I Tomescu-Dubrow, C Wolf, KM Slomczynski & JC Jenkins (eds), Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences. 1 edn, Wiley Blackwell Japan, New York, pp. 39-56. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119712206.ch3

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Kizilova, K., Diez-Medrano, J., Welzel, C., & Haerpfer, C. (2024). Harmonization in the World Values Survey. In I. Tomescu-Dubrow, C. Wolf, K. M. Slomczynski, & J. C. Jenkins (Eds.), Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences (1 ed., pp. 39-56). Wiley Blackwell Japan. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119712206.ch3

Vancouver

Kizilova K, Diez-Medrano J, Welzel C, Haerpfer C. Harmonization in the World Values Survey. In Tomescu-Dubrow I, Wolf C, Slomczynski KM, Jenkins JC, editors, Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences. 1 ed. New York: Wiley Blackwell Japan. 2024. p. 39-56 Epub 2023 Nov 10. doi: 10.1002/9781119712206.ch3

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