The basic values of cooperative society consist of the various values such as democracy, cooperation, solidarity, and contribution to community, which relates to the values of the human nature. Coop Kobe has been researching the method of the measurement of the basic values and its applying to the management evaluation of cooperatives. The evaluation method developed in Co-op Kobe was named a Comprehensive Evaluation of Consumer cooperative(CECC). In section 1, a development of the idea is described. In section 2, various elements of the method of the CECC are explained. In section 3, a possibility of the improvement of the method is shown. The contribution of the CECC method is that it has originally measured the basic values of cooperatives statistically and systematically, and become possible to apply to the evaluation of the business of Co-op Kobe from the viewpoint of efficiency and basic values
