Polish Panel Survey

Polish Panel Survey
(POLPAN)

Established	1988
Focus	Sociology
Address	Polskie Badanie Panelowe (POLPAN) IFiS PAN ul. Nowy Świat 72 00-330 Warszawa, Polska
Location	Warsaw , Poland
Website	www.polpan.org

The Polish Panel Survey (POLPAN, Polskie Badanie Panelowe) is a program of panel surveys of the population of Poland carried out by the Research Team on Comparative Social Inequality at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The study started in 1988 and is repeated in 5-year intervals. The focus of the Polish Panel Survey is to describe Poland's social structure and its change over the last 25 years.

POLPAN data and documentation from the waves 1988, 1993, 1998, and 2003 are available for download in various formats from the data catalogue at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and from the Polish Social Data Archive.

Methodology and scope

Initially, in 1988, the survey was conducted among a national sample representing Poland’s adult population (aged 21-65), with N = 5,817 respondents. In 1993, this sample was randomly reduced to 2,500 individuals, whom researchers tried to reach in each of the consecutive five-year waves. To ensure an adequate age balance, additional subsamples involving young cohorts have been supplemented later. For example, the 2008 sample comprised 1,825 respondents of whom 1,244 belong to the strict panel, and 581 are newly added individuals aged 21-25 years. In 2013 we made an attempt to contact all respondents (7,261) who had ever participated in the study, which resulted in achieving a sample of 2,780.

Data collection is carried out through questionnaire interviews by the Centre of Sociological Research at IFiS PAN.

The survey collects the following information:

• Employment (employment, self-employment, irregular employment and additional jobs, unemployment and housework);
• Occupational history
• Social, economic and political opinions and attitudes (chances of success and sources of conflicts, opinions about income, opinions about society, about privatization and the market, status evaluation and views on social issues);
• Friends and acquaintances;
• Family and household;
• Physical and psychological health;
• Religion;
• Intelligence (Raven's Test);
• Computer and Internet;
• Demographics.

Notes

Selected bibliography of POLPAN 1988-2013:

• Slomczynski, Kazimierz M.; Tomescu-Dubrow, Irina, eds. (2016). "Analyzing Social Change: The Polish Panel Survey, POLPAN 1988-2013. An issue devoted to the Polish Panel Survey, POLPAN". International Journal of Sociology. 46 (4). ISSN 0020-7659.
• Filipkowski, Piotr; Życzyńska-Ciołek, Danuta (2016). "Od kwestionariuszowego badania próby losowej do pogłębionej analizy życiowych przypadków – i z powrotem. Dwa wywiady biograficzne i kilka refleksji teoretycznych [From quantitative research based on a random sample to in-depth analysis of life experiences – and back. Two biographical interviews and a few theoretical reflections]". Studia Socjologiczne (3(222)): 229–254. ISSN 0039-3371.
• Kunovich, Robert M.; Kunovich, Sheri L. (2016). "The Gender Gap in Political Knowledge in Poland". Polish Sociological Review (1(193)): 33–49. ISSN 1231-1413.
• {{cite journal | last1 = Kołczyńska | first1 = Marta | last2 = Merry | first2 = Joseph J. | title = Preferred Levels of Income Inequality in a Period of Systemic Change: Analysis of Data from the Polish Panel Survey, POLPAN 1988-2003 | journal = Polish Sociological Review | issn = 1231-1413 | url=http://polish-sociological-review.eu/ | issue = 2(194) | pages = 171-189 | date = 2016 }
• {{cite journal | last1 = Słomczyński | first1 = Kazimierz M. | last2 = Tomescu-Dubrow | first2 = Irina | last3 = Dubrow | first3 = Joshua K. | title = Changes in Social Structure, Class, and Stratification: The Polish Panel Survey (POLPAN) | journal = ASK: Research & Methods | issn = 1234-9224 | url=https://askresearchandmethods.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/ask-24_2015-02_slomczynskidubrow.pdf | volume = 24 | issue = 1 | pages = 19-37 | date = 2015 }
• {{cite journal | last1 = Kiersztyn | first1 = Anna | title = Solidarity Lost? Low Pay Persistence During the Post-Communist Transition in Poland | journal = Polish Sociological Review | issn = 1231-1413 | url=http://polish-sociological-review.eu/ | issue = 4(192) | pages = 493-509 | date = 2015 }
• {{cite journal | last1 = Baczko-Dombi | first1 = Anna | last2 = Wysmułek | first2 = Ilona | title = Determinants of Success in Public Opinion in Poland: Factors, Directions and Dynamics of Change | journal = Polish Sociological Review | issn = 1231-1413 | url=http://polish-sociological-review.eu/ | issue = 3(191) | pages = 277-293 | date = 2015 }
• {{cite journal | last1 = Tomescu-Dubrow | first1 = Irina | title = International Experience and Labour Market Success: Analysing Panel Data from Poland | journal = Polish Sociological Review | issn = 1231-1413 | url=http://polish-sociological-review.eu/ | issue = 3(191) | pages = 259-276 | date = 2015 }
• {{cite journal | last1 = Kryszczuk | first1 = Maciej D. | last2 = Green | first2 = Brian E. | title = Digital Divide in Poland: An Exploration of Some Sociological Impacts of Personal Computer Possession, Internet Use and PC Proficiency | journal = Management and Business Administration. Central Europe | issn = 2450-7814 | url=http://mbace.eu/ | volume = 23 | issue = 3 | pages = 2-18 | date = 2015 }
• {{cite journal | last1 = Janicka | first1 = Krystyna | last2 = Slomczynski | first2 = Kazimierz M. | title = Struktura spoleczna w Polsce: klasowy wymiar nierownosci [Social Structure in Poland: Class Dimension of Social Inequality] | journal = Przeglad Socjologiczny | issn = 0033-2356 | url=http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.desklight-9686dedf-0fe2-4fa3-85b5-af3092bf2080 | volume = 63 | issue = 2 | pages = 55-72 | date = 2014 }
• {{cite journal | last1 = Kunovich | first1 = Robert M. | title = Political Knowledge in Poland | journal = Communist and Post-Communist Studies | issn = 0033-2356 | url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967067X12000839 | volume = 46 | issue = 1 | pages = 65-78 | date = 2013 }
• {{cite journal | last1 = Rossi | first1 = Maurizio | last2 = Scappini | first2 = Ettore | title = Possiamo ancora dirci cristiani? La volatilità della partecipazione individuale alla messa [Can we still call ourselves Christian? The inconsistency of individual Church attendance] | journal = Polis | issn = 1120-9488 | url=https://www.mulino.it/riviste/issn/1120-9488 | volume = 27 | issue = 3 | pages = 363-394 | date = 2013 }
• {{cite journal | last1 = Kiersztyn | first1 = Anna | title = Stuck in a mismatch? The Persistence of Overeducation During Twenty Years of the Post-Communist Transition in Poland | journal = Economics of Education Review | issn = 0272-7757 | url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775712001215 | volume = 32 | issue = 1 | pages = 78-91 | date = 2013 }
• Slomczynski, Kazimierz M.; Tomescu-Dubrow, Irina, eds. (2013). "Sociodemographic Differentiation in a Dynamic Perspective: The Polish Panel Survey, POLPAN 1988–2008. An issue devoted to the Polish Panel Survey, POLPAN". International Journal of Sociology. 42 (4). ISSN 0020-7659. {{cite journal}}: line feed character in |title= at position 102 (help)
• Slomczynski, Kazimierz M.; Tomescu-Dubrow, Irina, eds. (2012). "Changes in Social Structure, Class, and Stratification: The Polish Panel Survey (POLPAN)". International Journal of Sociology. 42 (1). ISSN 0020-7659. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |trans_title= (help)

Books:

• Dynamics of Social Structure: Poland’s Transformative Years, 1988–2013. Warsaw: IFiS Publishers. 2016. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)
• {{cite book|title=Social Inequality and the Life Course: Poland’s Transformative Years, 1988–2013 | year=20016 |publisher=IFiS Publishers|location=Warsaw| editor1-first= Kazimierz M.|editor1-last= Slomczynski| editor2-first= Ilona | editor2-last= Wysmu
• Slomczynski, Kazimierz M.; Marquart-Pyatt, Sandra L., eds. (2007). Continuity and Change in Social Life: Structural and Psychological Adjustment in Poland. Warsaw: IFiS Publishers. ISBN 8373881328.
• Slomczynski, Kazimierz M., ed. (2005). The Polish Panel Study POLPAN, 1988–1993–1998–2003. Warsaw: IFiS Publishers. ISBN 8373880062.
• Slomczynski, Kazimierz M., ed. (2002). Social Structure: Changes and Linkages – The Advanced Phase of the Post-Communist Transition in Poland. Warsaw: IFiS Publishers. ISBN 8387632015.
• Slomczynski, Kazimierz M., ed. (2000). Social Patterns of Being Political – The Initial Phase of the Post-Communist Transition in Poland. Warsaw: IFiS Publishers. ISBN 8387632015.

See also

• Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)
• British Household Panel Survey (BHPS)
• Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey (HILDA)
• Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
• LISS panel (LISS)
• Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW)

External links

• POLPAN official website (URL accessed 2016-01-11)
• POLPAN data in the GESIS Data Catalogue (URL accessed 2016-01-11)
• POLPAN data in ADS (URL accessed 2016-01-11)
• Centre of Sociological Research (ORBS) (URL accessed 2016-01-11)