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	Panelbaserad deskriptiv forskning	Undersökningsforskning
Ämnesområde	Forskningsdesign	Forskningsdesign
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ursprungsår	1940s–1960s	Late 19th century; methodologically systematised 1940s–1960s
Upphovsperson	Developed within survey methodology and social science panel traditions (Lazarsfeld, Kish, and others)	Francis Galton, Charles Booth, and early social statisticians; systematised by Paul Lazarsfeld and colleagues at Columbia in the 1940s
Typ	Quantitative observational research design	Quantitative (and mixed) non-experimental design
Ursprungskälla	Menard, S. (2002). Longitudinal Research (2nd ed.). Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-0761922827	Fowler, F. J. (2014). Survey Research Methods (5th ed.). Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-1452259000
Alias	descriptive panel study, panel survey descriptive design, repeated cross-sectional descriptive panel, panel descriptive research	survey methodology, questionnaire research, survey design, survey study
Närliggande	4	4
Sammanfattning	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.	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.