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Polish Panel Survey
(POLPAN)
Established1988
FocusSociology
AddressPolski Survey Panelowy (POLPAN)
IFiS PAN
ul. Nowy Świat 72
00-330 Warszawa, Polska
Location
Warsaw
,
Poland
Websitewww.polpan.org

The Polish Panel Survey (POLPAN, Polski Survey Panelowy) is a program of panel surveys of the population of Poland carried out by the Research Team on Comparative Social Inequality[1] at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology[2] , Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN). It is an individual-based study started in 1988 and repeated in 5-year intervals. The focus of the program 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 is available for download in various formats from the download and analysis tool of the GESIS Data Archive's - ZACAT, and from the Polish Social Data Archive.

Methodology and scope

Data collection is carried out by the Centre for Sociological Research[3] at IFiS PAN.

The sample of the last panel wave of 2008 comprises 1825 respondents of whom 1244 belong to the strict panel, while 581 cases consist of newly added individuals aged 21-25 years.

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 health and psychological items;
  • Religion;
  • Intelligence (Raven's Test);
  • Computer and Internet;
  • Demographics.


Selected publications

Slomczynski, Kazimierz M.; Tomescu-Dubrow, Irina, eds. (2012). International Journal of Sociology. 42 (1). ISSN 0020-7659 http://mesharpe.metapress.com/app/home/issue.asp?referrer=parent&backto=journal,3,35;linkingpublicationresults,1:110910,1. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |trans_title= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)

Slomczynski; Marquart-Pyatt, Sandra L., eds. (2007). Continuity and Change in Social Life: Structural and Psychological Adjustment in Poland. Warsaw: IFiS Publishers. ISBN 8373881328. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editor1_first= ignored (help)

Slomczynski, Kazimierz M. (2005). The Polish Panel Study POLPAN, 1988–1993–1998–2003. Warsaw: IFiS Publishers. ISBN 8373880062.

Slomczynski, ed. (2002). Social Structure: Changes and Linkages – The Advanced Phase of the Post-Communist Transition in Poland. Warsaw: IFiS Publishers. ISBN 8387632015. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editor_first= ignored (help)

Slomczynski, ed. (2000). Social Patterns of Being Political – The Initial Phase of the Post-Communist Transition in Poland. Warsaw: IFiS Publishers. ISBN 8387632015. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editor_first= ignored (help)

See also

References


Category:Statistical data sets Category:Social statistics data Category:Panel data Category:Cohort studies Category:Research institutes in Poland