Documentation GESIS Panel.pop
Here you can access all important information and documentation about the GESIS Panel.pop Population Sample.
Longitudinal Core Studies
Click here for information about our longitudinal Core Studies and for our Core Studies questionnaires.
Wave plan and wave reports
Click here for the wave reports of all waves published so far.
GESIS Panel.pop Cheatsheet
Here you get data structure, wave and variable descriptions at a glance.
Questionnaires Covid-19
Click here for the Covid-19 related questionnaires of the GESIS Panel (2020-2023).
Sample and Recruitments
Here you find information about the recuritments/refreshments in the GESIS Panel.pop and about the sample.
GESIS Panel Bibliography
Click here for publications that use GESIS Panel data. Send us your publication to bibliography@gesis-panel.org
Declaration on Research Ethics
Here you find the Declaration on Research Ethics. Send us a message to gesis-panel(at)gesis.org if you need further information or documents in the course of a publication with GESIS Panel data.
Additional Documents
Cite the GESIS panel data in your publications
Researchers are required to cite the data set they use in publications with the correct ZA version number and DOI. Here is an example citation for version 52.0.0 of both data sets:
GESIS (2024). GESIS Panel - Standard Edition. GESIS, Cologne. ZA5665 Data file Version 52.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14285.
GESIS (2024). GESIS Panel - Extended Edition. GESIS, Cologne. ZA5664 Data file Version 52.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14284.
If you have used data from our special SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus survey in your publication, please cite them as follows:
GESIS (2020). GESIS Panel Special Survey on the Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak in Germany. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA5667 Data file Version 1.1.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13520.
Additionally, please refer to the GESIS Panel.pop reference paper in all publications that are based on the GESIS Panel.pop data set, for example in a sentence such as: "This paper uses data from the GESIS Panel.pop Population Sample. The GESIS Panel.pop is a part of the GESIS Panel which is operated by GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and funded jointly by the Federal Government and the Länder. A detailed description of the GESIS Panel.pop can be found in Bosnjak et al., 2018."
Bosnjak, M., Dannwolf, T., Enderle, T., Schaurer, I., Struminskaya, B., Tanner, A., & Weyandt K. W. (2018).Establishing an Open Probability-Based Mixed-Mode Panel of the General Population in Germany: The GESIS Panel. Social Science Computer Review, 36(1), 103-115. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894439317697949
We recommend using the design weights contained in the data set. Please cite them as follows:
Sand, M., Bruch, C., Felderer, B., Schaurer, I., Kolb, J.-P., & Weyandt, K. (2025). Creating Design Weights for a Panel Survey With Multiple Refreshment Samples: A General Discussion With an Application to a Probability-Based Mixed-Mode Panel. Methods Data Analyses online first: . doi: https://doi.org/10.12758/mda.2025.01
Inform us about your publication with GESIS Panel data
We obligate all users to inform us about their publications with GESIS Panel data in order to keep our GESIS Panel Bibliography complete and up to date.
The aim is to make all publications based on GESIS Panel data available in this bibliography.
Send us details about your publications with GESIS panel data to bibliography(at)gesis-panel(dot)org.