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svemagie 34c99ec7a9 fix: rename 6 DE datasets README.md→{Name}.md + add 7 missing source catalogs

Renames (consistent naming convention):
- DE-Church-Exits, DE-Mental-Health, DE-Social-Isolation,
  DE-Wastewater-Surveillance, DE-Wellbeing, DE-World-Values

New source catalog entries (DS-00021 through DS-00027):
- Church Exits (EKD/DBK), Common Metrics (Destatis/Bundesbank/BA/ZEW),
  Democracy Metrics (V-Dem/RSF/ALLBUS), Mental Health (Gallup/Destatis/DAK),
  Social Isolation (Genesis/Einsamkeitsstudie), Wellbeing (Eurostat EHIS),
  World Values (WVS/EVS)

All 16 DE datasets + 1 EU dataset now have consistent naming and source catalogs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-04-23 12:05:57 +02:00

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DE World Values Survey — Inglehart / WVS Germany

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Metric	Wave 5 (2006)	Wave 7 (2018)	Trend	Confidence
Postmaterialist (%)	19.4%	25.8%	+6.4pp	80%
Trust in government	34.8%	43.1%	+8.3pp	80%
Trust in political parties	10.2%	20.7%	+10.5pp	80%
Life satisfaction (mean)	7.5/10	7.1/10	-0.4	80%

One-liner: Germany: postmaterialism rising, party trust at 21%, life satisfaction declining.

Caveat: Values are hardcoded from published WVS reports; small discrepancies (±1–2pp) may exist vs. raw microdata.

Quick Context

Germany sits firmly in the "Secular-Rational + Self-Expression" quadrant of Inglehart's Cultural Map — the highest corner, associated with post-industrial, postmaterialist societies. The rising postmaterialism share (W5→W7: +6.4pp) coexists with declining life satisfaction and near-stagnant trust in political parties (~10→21%), consistent with the "emancipation paradox": rising autonomy expectations against unchanged institutions.

This connects directly to PR-00001 (Meaning Crisis): postmaterialists prioritize self-expression, yet institutional trust and life satisfaction are declining — structural misalignment between values and experienced reality.

Dataset

wvs-germany.csv

Column	Description	Scale
wave	WVS wave number (5, 6, 7)	—
year	Field year for Germany	—
n	Valid sample size	—
postmat_pct	% Postmaterialist (4-item Inglehart index)	0–100
mixed_pct	% Mixed	0–100
mat_pct	% Materialist	0–100
trust_govt_pct	% trusting central government "a great deal/quite a lot"	0–100
trust_parliament_pct	% trusting parliament	0–100
trust_parties_pct	% trusting political parties	0–100
life_satisfaction_mean	Mean life satisfaction (V23 in WVS7)	1–10
freedom_choice_mean	Mean sense of freedom/choice (V52 in WVS7)	1–10

Sources

Wave	Year	n	DOI / URL
5	2006	2,064	https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV5.jsp
6	2013	2,046	https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV6.jsp
7	2017–19	2,078	https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV7.jsp

Secondary references:

Inglehart, R. & Welzel, C. (2005). Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy. Cambridge UP.
Dalton, R. (2019). Citizen Politics. 7th ed. CQ Press.
EVS/WVS Joint Dataset: https://europeanvaluesstudy.eu/

Downloading Raw Microdata

WVS does not provide a public REST API. Bulk data requires:

Register (free): https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSContents.jsp
Agree to academic use terms
Download: WVS Cross-National Wave 7 (Stata / SPSS / CSV)
Filter by B_COUNTRY_ALPHA == "DEU" for Germany

Variable codebook: WVS-7_Master_Questionnaire_2017-2020_English.pdf

Substrate Connection

Problems: PR-00001 (Meaning Crisis), PR-00003 (Performance Society Exhaustion)
Proxy cluster: Werteverschiebung & Jugend (Cluster 5)
Argument: AR-00004

Changelog

Date	Change	Reason
2026-04-22	Initial dataset, Waves 5–7	PR-00001 evidence expansion

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