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LISS panel(Longitudinal Internet studies for the
Social Sciences
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) is an online household
panel
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. The panel consists of some 5000 households in the Netherlands, comprising approximately 7500 individuals over the age of 16. The panel is based on a true probability
sample
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of households drawn from the population register b
Statistics Netherlands Households without prior Internet access are equipped with a computer and broadband Internet.
The LISS panel provides scientists and policy makers with a facility to carry out surveys, with a focus on
longitudinal studies
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. Data collected in the LISS panel are available at no charge to the wider research and policymaking community in the Netherlands and abroad, upon signing a user statement. The datasets are provided in
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and
Stata formats. The documentation is available in English and Dutch.
The panel is maintained at the research institut
CentERdata
The LISS panel is the core element of a project entitled Measurement and Experimentation in the Social Sciences (MESS). In 2006, th
NWO(Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) awarded a grant to CentERdata to initiate this project. At first, the MESS project was planned for a period of seven years (2006 to 2013) and entailed both an optimal infrastructure for empirical research in the social sciences and the financial resources to carry out this research. In addition to the LISS panel, special groups were sampled and interviewed within the MESS project, e.g. immigrants or the elderly.
Since 2014 funding for carrying out surveys comes from the researchers themselves. The project is still strongly geared to integrating different academic disciplines and developing and testing new, innovative research techniques.
See also
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British Household Panel Survey
The British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), carried out at the Institute for Social and Economic Research of the University of Essex, is a survey for social and economic research. A sample of British households was drawn and first interviewed in ...
(BHPS), UK
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Panel Study of Income Dynamics The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) is a longitudinal panel survey of American families, conducted by the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan.
The PSID measures economic, social, and health factors over the life course of f ...
(PSID), USA
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Socio-Economic Panel
The ''German'' Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP [], for ''Sozio-oekonomisches Panel'') is a Longitudinal study, longitudinal panel dataset of the population in Germany. It is a household based study which started in 1984 and which reinterviews adul ...
(SOEP), Germany
External links
LISS panel website SOEP website BHPS website PSID website Swiss Household Panel website
References
NWONOD - Dutch Research DatabaseDANS EASYNARCIS
* GESIS
Household surveys
Panel data