Panel-based Descriptive Research
Panel-based descriptive research follows the same set of individuals, households, or organizations across multiple time points and uses that repeated-measures structure to describe how variables, distributions, and patterns change over time — without imposing an experimental manipulation or testing causal hypotheses. It is distinguished from cross-sectional descriptive research by its capacity to document intra-individual change, and from explanatory panel research by its goal of accurate description rather than causal modelling.
Source record
Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.
- Menard, S. (2002). Longitudinal Research (2nd ed.). Sage Publications. · ISBN 978-0761922827
- Kish, L. (1965). Survey Sampling. Wiley. · ISBN 978-0471489009
Curated claims
Claims persisted in the evidence ledger, each with its own assessment.
This view does not invent a claim assessment when the ledger has none.
Related methods
Generated from the method graph and shown as machine-suggested relations — no evidence claim is inferred.