panel study
panel studyA study that provides longitudinal data on a group of people, households, employers, or other social unit, termed ‘the panel’, about whom information is collected over a period of months, years, or decades. Two of the most common types of panel are age-cohorts, people within a common age-band, and groups with some other date-specific common experience, such as people graduating from university, having a first child, or migrating to another country in a given year or band of years. Another type is the nationally representative cross-sectional sample of households or employers that is interviewed at regular intervals over a period of years. Because data relate to the same social units, change is measured more reliably than in regular cross-sectional studies, and sample sizes can be correspondingly smaller (often under 500), while remaining nationally representative, as long as non-response and sample...
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