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 1988-2008:

• 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)
• 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.
• "Social Structure in Poland, 1988-2003. Dynamic Analysis in International Context". Research Team on Comparative Social Inequality, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. (URL accessed 2012-11-02)

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)