New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study Data Dictionary

This is the data dictionary for the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study (NZAVS). The document lists the scales (and the number of items, and design origin, etc.) included in each yearly wave of the NZAVS. This document thus allows comparison of the measures and instruments included across different waves. This document is also our master planning document, and lists the current measures intended for the coming wave of data collection. This document also contains the database keys for each wave of the NZAVS. Each spreadsheet list the item content contained in a given wave of the NZAVS. Items are listed in the order that they appear in the master SPSS and Mplus data files. Long variable names (used in SPSS and Excel versions of the NZAVS data files) and eight-character variable names (used in the tab-delimited Mplus NZAVS data files) are also provided. These spreadsheets are thus designed as a reference guide for the NZAVS SPSS, Excel and tab-delimited Mplus data files. The data files themselves are not available online, but may be made available upon request, to qualified researchers for the purpose of collaborative research.