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	پژوهش مقطعی مبتنی بر پنل	مطالعه کوهورت	پژوهش پیمایشی
حوزه	طراحی پژوهش	اپیدمیولوژی	طراحی پژوهش
خانواده	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
سال پیدایش	1940s–1960s (formalized in social survey methodology)	Mid-20th century (formal epidemiological design codified ~1950s)	Late 19th century; methodologically systematised 1940s–1960s
پدیدآور	Panel survey methodology developed from large-scale government and social survey programs (e.g., University of Michigan Survey Research Center, 1940s–1950s)	Doll & Hill (British Doctors Study, 1951); Snow (cholera, 1854)	Francis Galton, Charles Booth, and early social statisticians; systematised by Paul Lazarsfeld and colleagues at Columbia in the 1940s
نوع	Quantitative observational design	Observational longitudinal study design	Quantitative (and mixed) non-experimental design
منبع بنیادین	Kasprzyk, D., Duncan, G., Kalton, G., & Singh, M. P. (Eds.). (1989). Panel Surveys. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 978-0471622635	Rothman, K. J., Greenland, S., & Lash, T. L. (2008). Modern Epidemiology (3rd ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. ISBN: 978-0781755641	Fowler, F. J. (2014). Survey Research Methods (5th ed.). Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-1452259000
نام‌های دیگر	panel cross-sectional survey, rotating panel cross-section, repeated cross-section panel, cross-sectional panel design	longitudinal study, follow-up study, panel study, incidence study	survey methodology, questionnaire research, survey design, survey study
مرتبط	3	6	4
خلاصه	Panel-based cross-sectional research draws repeated cross-sectional measurements from a pre-recruited standing panel rather than sampling fresh respondents each time. This hybrid design preserves the snapshot character of classic cross-sectional surveys while gaining speed, cost efficiency, and comparability across waves. It is widely used in social, health, and market research whenever population-level estimates are needed quickly and repeatedly without full longitudinal tracking of the same individuals.	A cohort study assembles a group of individuals who share a common starting point — typically freedom from the outcome of interest — and follows them over time to observe who develops the outcome. By comparing incidence rates between exposed and unexposed subgroups, researchers can estimate relative risk and absolute risk differences. Cohort studies are the gold-standard observational design for measuring disease incidence and establishing temporal relationships between exposure and outcome.	Survey research is a quantitative (and sometimes mixed-methods) design in which a researcher collects standardised self-report data from a sample drawn from a defined population, using a questionnaire or structured interview. It is the dominant non-experimental strategy for describing population characteristics, estimating prevalence, mapping attitude distributions, and testing bivariate or multivariate associations across social, behavioural, and health sciences.