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Collect your own data with the GESIS Panel

The GESIS Panel offers researchers at universities and non-commercial research institutes from various disciplines (e.g. sociology, psychology, political science, economics or criminology) the opportunity to collect their own survey data.

Regular Submission
A Regular Submission offers researchers the opportunity to collect cross-sectional or longitudinal data with up to four experimental groups and five minutes of survey time per wave.

Short Submission
In the context of a Short Submission, researchers can submit a short questionnaire for the collection of cross-sectional or longitudinal data, which will only undergo an internal review.

Third-party funded studies
For studies in which survey data is to be collected for a planned third-party funded project (e.g. DFG, BMBF), you can reserve survey time in selected GESIS panel waves in advance.

Data collection in three countries (OPPA)
We offer the possibility of international comparative data collection within the framework of the Open Probability-based Panel Alliance (OPPA). This is an alliance of three probabilistic internet panels: the LISS Panel in the Netherlands, the Understanding America Study (UAS) in the USA and the GESIS Panel.

Which submission procedure is the right one for me?

  Longitudinal
designs		 Experimental
designs		 Questionnaire
length		 Countries Costs
Regular
Submission		 Possible Possible (up to
4 groups)		 Up to 5 minutes
per wave		 Germany Free of charge
Short Submission Possible Not possible Up to 1 minute
per wave		 Germany Free of charge
Third-party funded studies Possible Possible (up to
4 groups)		 Approx. 5 minutes
per wave		 Germany Contribution to
total survey costs
Open Probability-based
Panel Alliance (OPPA)		 Possible Possible (up to
4 groups)		 Please ask for
details		 Germany, Netherlands,
USA		 Contribution to
total survey costs

If your study is included in the GESIS Panel, the survey data will be integrated into our data set with the data from all previous survey waves. This also includes the data from our own longitudinal Core Studies, which we collect regularly. Overall, our dataset has an enormous range of surveyed characteristics on a wide variety of topics. This allows you to analyse your survey data in a broad context. 

  • The GESIS Panel does not accept commercial projects. Should you have any doubts or questions as to whether your specific research project might cause conflicts between these interests, responsibilities, and regulations, please do not hesitate to contact us (see below).
  • When making the final decision to accept or refuse a proposal, the GESIS Panel Team has to balance various interests, responsibilities, and regulations, namely (a) legal regulations and ethical standards; (b) GESIS' responsibility to protect the integrity of panelists; (c) GESIS' interest in maintaining an unbiased panel (e.g., by avoiding panel attrition and differential drop-out likely to be induced by certain topics and experimental procedures); (d) the interest of the primary and secondary researchers in collecting and using survey data.

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.

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