Pacific Rim Value Survey

PRVS

Preface

This is the the website of“Pacific Rim Value Survey” (2004-2009 fiscal year) by the cross-national survey team of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Chief Ryozo Yoshino), with the financial support by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS): Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) No.18252001. We are developing this study in order to exemplify practical research of a new methodology for cross-national comparative survey, called CULMAN (Cultural Manifold Analysis) (See Yoshino [2005b] and Yoshino, Nikaido and Fujita [2009]). Some historical background of this study is as follows. (See Yoshino [2001, 2005c, 2006], Yoshino & Hayashi [2001], and Yoshino, Nikaido & Fujita [2009] for more detailed English explanation on the history, methodologies such as back-translation technique for constructing questionnaire and statistical random sampling, and a paradigm of cross-national comparability. As for the information on our past surveys, see the series of ISM Research Reports published over decades or our home page of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics. (http://www.ism.ac.jp/~yoshino/ )