A huge bravo to all the volunteers making this mission against #rabies possible, especially the #veterinary students from the Royal University of Agriculture #RUA in Cambodia and the international volunteers from Worldwide Veterinary Service #WVS.

A selection of countries and what respondents mention as important in children

The #dataBS Conf mentioned aspirational survey responses at one point, so I thought I would riff of that and share the comparative results from a selection of countries in the World Values Survey #WVS for important qualities in children.

Gist of processing code:
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Newspaper cutting from the Bexhill Observer 13.4.1941 showing the W.V.S preparing blackberry jam.

"Blackberry Jam.
Weighing blackberries for jam at the Bexhill Fruit Preserving Centre, managed by the W.V.S."
Bexhill Observer 13.9.1941. #Bexhill #Sussex #WW2 #WVS #Blackberry #Jam #History #1940s

In our new paper, we integrated the idea of quantity vs. quality of life with modernization theory, and tested it with #WVS data, using the justifiability of euthanasia question. Autonomy values do have an independent impact, but less than religiosity.