World Values Survey (WVS). To study changing values and their impact on society and politics, the WVS (www

.worldvaluessurvey.org) has designed a cultural map of the world, with nine cultural regions, such as Confucian and Orthodox, instead of the seven continents. Countries are also assigned numerical scores based on two major dimensions of cross-cultural variations: traditional values versus secular-rational values and survival values versus self-expression values.