Cultural Distance
For two countries, cultural distance is defined as the average expected disagreement on a question of the World Values Survey by two individuals randomly drawn from those two countries (disagreement = 1 for different answers, 0 for identical answers). The new cultural distance data, based on the "flex" method, can be downloaded here:
Comma-Separated Values (.csv)
A list of the questions used to compute cultural distance can be found here.
Dataset Format:
Data type: panel.
Number of countries covered: 116.
Number of dyads: 13,456.
Years: 1984, 1993, 1998, 2002, 2009, 2014, 2021 (corresponding to the waves of WVS/EVS)
Variables included:
Cultural Distance (flex method)
Cultural Distance - logit transform, standardized
number of questions used (dyad-specific)