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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>
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# DE World Values Survey — Inglehart / WVS Germany
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## 🎯 BEST ESTIMATE
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| Metric | Wave 5 (2006) | Wave 7 (2018) | Trend | Confidence |
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|--------|---------------|---------------|-------|------------|
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| **Postmaterialist (%)** | 19.4% | 25.8% | +6.4pp | 80% |
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| **Trust in government** | 34.8% | 43.1% | +8.3pp | 80% |
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| **Trust in political parties** | 10.2% | 20.7% | +10.5pp | 80% |
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| **Life satisfaction (mean)** | 7.5/10 | 7.1/10 | -0.4 | 80% |
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**One-liner:** Germany: postmaterialism rising, party trust at 21%, life satisfaction declining.
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**Caveat:** Values are hardcoded from published WVS reports; small discrepancies (±1–2pp) may exist vs. raw microdata.
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## Quick Context
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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.
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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.
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## Dataset
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### wvs-germany.csv
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| Column | Description | Scale |
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|--------|-------------|-------|
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| wave | WVS wave number (5, 6, 7) | — |
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| year | Field year for Germany | — |
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| n | Valid sample size | — |
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| postmat_pct | % Postmaterialist (4-item Inglehart index) | 0–100 |
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| mixed_pct | % Mixed | 0–100 |
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| mat_pct | % Materialist | 0–100 |
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| trust_govt_pct | % trusting central government "a great deal/quite a lot" | 0–100 |
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| trust_parliament_pct | % trusting parliament | 0–100 |
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| trust_parties_pct | % trusting political parties | 0–100 |
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| life_satisfaction_mean | Mean life satisfaction (V23 in WVS7) | 1–10 |
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| freedom_choice_mean | Mean sense of freedom/choice (V52 in WVS7) | 1–10 |
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## Sources
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| Wave | Year | n | DOI / URL |
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|------|------|---|-----------|
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| 5 | 2006 | 2,064 | https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV5.jsp |
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| 6 | 2013 | 2,046 | https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV6.jsp |
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| 7 | 2017–19 | 2,078 | https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV7.jsp |
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**Secondary references:**
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- Inglehart, R. & Welzel, C. (2005). *Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy*. Cambridge UP.
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- Dalton, R. (2019). *Citizen Politics*. 7th ed. CQ Press.
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- EVS/WVS Joint Dataset: https://europeanvaluesstudy.eu/
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## Downloading Raw Microdata
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WVS does **not** provide a public REST API. Bulk data requires:
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1. Register (free): https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSContents.jsp
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2. Agree to academic use terms
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3. Download: WVS Cross-National Wave 7 (Stata / SPSS / CSV)
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4. Filter by `B_COUNTRY_ALPHA == "DEU"` for Germany
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Variable codebook: `WVS-7_Master_Questionnaire_2017-2020_English.pdf`
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## Substrate Connection
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- **Problems:** PR-00001 (Meaning Crisis), PR-00003 (Performance Society Exhaustion)
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- **Proxy cluster:** Werteverschiebung & Jugend (Cluster 5)
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- **Argument:** AR-00004
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## Changelog
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| Date | Change | Reason |
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|------|--------|--------|
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| 2026-04-22 | Initial dataset, Waves 5–7 | PR-00001 evidence expansion |
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