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	Indagine Relazionale Longitudinale	Ricerca su Panel
Campo	Disegno della ricerca	Disegno della ricerca
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1960s–1980s (formalized in panel and longitudinal survey literature)	1970s-1980s (econometric formalization); earlier social survey use from 1940s
Ideatore	Classical survey methodology (Campbell & Stanley, 1963; Kessler & Greenberg, 1981)	Social science and econometric traditions; systematized by Cheng Hsiao and others from the 1970s-1980s
Tipo	Non-experimental quantitative design	Quantitative longitudinal observational design
Fonte seminale	Singer, J. D., & Willett, J. B. (2003). Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis: Modeling Change and Event Occurrence. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0195152968	Hsiao, C. (2003). Analysis of Panel Data (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0521522717
Alias	longitudinal correlational survey, prospective relational survey, repeated-measures relational survey, panel relational survey	panel study, panel survey, longitudinal panel, repeated-measures panel
Correlati	3	3
Sintesi	A longitudinal relational survey follows the same sample at two or more time points, collecting structured questionnaire data each wave and examining how the relationships among variables change, strengthen, weaken, or emerge across time. Unlike a cross-sectional relational survey that offers a single snapshot, this design captures temporal dynamics and allows researchers to test whether earlier measurements predict later outcomes, making it valuable for studying development, attitude change, and causal ordering.	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.