This volume presents the value profiles of the people in European countries. It shows the cultural varieties and similarities in beliefs and values across Europe and provides insights in the differential and similar trends in basic orientations since 1981.

Ruud Luijkx, Ph.D. (1994), Tilburg University, is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He is an Associate Member of Nuffield College, Oxford, and a Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology and Sociological Research at the University of Trento, Italy. His publications are in the field of social stratification and mobility, categorical data analysis, and international comparative databases.
Loek Halman, Ph.D. (1991), Tilburg University, is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. His publications focus on values, beliefs and attitudes in contemporary society and the dynamics of value change.

Inge Sieben, Ph.D. (2001), Nijmegen University, is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. She is co-author of The Atlas of European Values: Trends and Traditions at the turn of the Century (Brill, 2011).
Evelyn Brislinger, Dipl.-Soz. (1978), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, is a senior project manager at the GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences". She coordinates the data management and processing for various national and international survey programs and is in charge of the publication of EVS data and documentation.
Markus Quandt, Ph.D. (1996), GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, is head of the Research Data Center International Survey Programs at GESIS. He is involved in the management of various international survey programs and has worked and published on data infrastructures, data harmonization, measurement equivalence of comparative data, and topics in political sociology.