Comparar métodos

	Investigación de panel	Investigación de Tendencias
Campo	Diseño de investigación	Diseño de investigación
Familia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Año de origen	1970s-1980s (econometric formalization); earlier social survey use from 1940s	Mid-20th century (formalised in social science methodology ~1950s–1960s)
Autor original	Social science and econometric traditions; systematized by Cheng Hsiao and others from the 1970s-1980s	Earl Babbie and survey research tradition
Tipo	Quantitative longitudinal observational design	Quantitative longitudinal research design
Fuente seminal	Hsiao, C. (2003). Analysis of Panel Data (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0521522717	Creswell, J. W. (2014). Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches (4th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1452226101
Alias	panel study, panel survey, longitudinal panel, repeated-measures panel	trend study, trend survey, longitudinal trend study, time-series survey
Relacionados	3	4
Resumen	Panel research is a quantitative longitudinal design in which the same individuals, organizations, or other units are measured repeatedly across two or more time points. Unlike cross-sectional surveys that capture a single snapshot, a panel tracks change within units, enabling researchers to separate genuine within-unit change from between-unit differences and to model causal dynamics over time.	Trend research is a longitudinal quantitative design that tracks changes in a characteristic of a general population over time by surveying different, independently drawn samples at two or more time points. Unlike panel studies, the same individuals are not followed; rather, each wave draws a fresh sample from the same population, allowing researchers to detect population-level shifts in attitudes, behaviours, or conditions while avoiding the attrition and panel conditioning problems of repeated-measures designs.