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Better Measurement with a Panel Design?

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In this chapter we consider those panels that are set up to organise the data-collection in a better way. Such panels are mainly intended to give statistical information about a limited number of variables. The topics are ordered in the sequence in which they show up in the survey practice. In Section 2.2 we point out that drawing a sample from, for example, the respondents of a preceding survey, already gives panel data in the first wave. In addition to this we discuss the ‘regression to the mean’ phenomenon.

The views expressed in this chapter are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the policies of The Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics. The author thanks Wouter Keller, Bert Kersten, Jos de Ree, Huib van de Stadt and Henk Stronkhorst for their comments on preliminary versions of this report, and Wanda Hendriksz for translating the Dutch version into English.

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  1. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Willem E. Saris (Professor of Social Science Methods and Techniques) (Professor of Social Science Methods and Techniques)

  2. Sociometric Research Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Irmtraud N. Gallhofer (Managing Director) (Managing Director)

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van de Pol, F.J.R. (1988). Better Measurement with a Panel Design?. In: Saris, W.E., Gallhofer, I.N. (eds) Sociometric Research. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19054-6_2

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