Cumulative file from the previous data collections held in 1986 1987 1992 1999 and 2002.Topics: religion / world views / value systems / politics / conservatism / ethnocentrism / localism / labour / socal security / education / child-rearing / health mental illness / lifestyles / youth centrism / environmentalism / consumerism / primary relationships / help behaviour / personal networks / social characteristics.Specific documentation about the creation of this cumulative file is not yet available. Please see the codebooks of the previous surveys as mentioned in the relationfields of this dataset.

Documentation of a national survey on social cohesion and modernization in the Netherlands.These surveys builds on earlier waves of the Religion in Dutch society survey, which have been conducted in the winters of 1979/1980, 1985/1986, 1990/1991, 1995/1996, 2000/2001, 2005/2006, 2011/2012, and the Social and Cultural Developments in the Netherlands survey 2017, 2018 and 2019.They are part of a long-standing research program, aimed at longitudinal research with a strong (a) substantial multi-disciplinary focus on religiosity, values, in-group solidarity and out-group derogation as well as a strong (b) methodological focus on high quality data, valid measurements and innovative data-collection designs.