Regular Submission to the GESIS Panel.pop
The Regular Submission offers researchers the opportunity to collect cross-sectional and longitudinal data with up to four experimental groups and five minutes of survey time per wave. It is designed in two stages: In the first stage, your submission will be internally reviewed within four weeks to check the formal compliance of your Regular Submission with the GESIS Panel guidelines. In case of a positive vote, you will then be asked to submit the full proposal for the second stage. This will go through an external, anonymous peer review process. Data collection and use in a Regular Submission are free of charge. Studies can be submitted at any time.
In our FAQ about data collection with the GESIS Panel.pop you find answers about general questions. Before submitting your application, we also recommend that you familiarise yourself with the FAQ Questionnaire Design (190 kB), the Survey Style Guide (1.63 MB) and the Review Criteria (154 kB).
The survey time in Regular Submissions is limited to five minutes per wave (according to our time measurement). According to our time measurement, one minute of survey time is roughly equivalent to:
- Five short single-choice questions or
- Three multiple-choice questions with a maximum of seven items or
- Two open-ended questions
Stage 1:
- Fill out the Regular Submission Form Stage 1 (202 kB).
- Fill out the GESIS Panel.pop Questionnaire Template (21 kB) with your questionnaire (The questionnaire must be in German or English).
- Fill out the Self-Assessment on Research Ethics (300 kB).
- Send us the three documents via email: gesis-panel(at)gesis.org.
Stage 2:
After a positive review of your submission documents from stage 1, you can fill out the documents for the stage 2.
- Fill out the Regular Submission Form Stage 2 (181 kB).
- Fill out the GESIS Panel.pop Questionnaire Template (21 kB) with your questionnaire (The questionnaire must be in German and English). Please take our Survey Style Guide (1.63 MB) into account when structuring the questions.
- Send us the proposal and the excel questionnaire to gesis-panel(at)gesis.org.
Questionnaire consulting, pretesting and translation consulting
- We encourage researchers to take advantage of GESIS consulting services before submitting their proposals/questionnaires to the GESIS Panel. The services offered include general questionnaire consultation, pretesting service, and consultation to questionnaire translation. By using these services, the quality of the collected data can be significantly improved. Some of the offers are free of charge.
Publish and search for measurement instruments with ZIS
If your submission aims at developing new measurement instruments (single items, scales) or improving existing ones, we encourage you to publish your measurement instrument in ZIS cost-free and in a citable form. ZIS is an open access repository for social and behavioral science measurement instruments hosted by GESIS. ZIS includes more than 300 instruments (as of 2022), for example, items measuring political attitudes or personality. Here you can find more information about the publication of measurement instruments in ZIS.
Do you have questions?
In our FAQs on data collection, you will find answers to the most important questions about data collection with the GESIS Panel.pop.
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