เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	การวิจัยเชิงพรรณนาแบบติดตามกลุ่มตัวอย่างเดิม	การวิจัยเชิงพรรณนา
สาขาวิชา	การออกแบบการวิจัย	การออกแบบการวิจัย
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	1940s–1960s	Late 19th century; formalized in social/behavioral sciences ~1960s–1980s
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Developed within survey methodology and social science panel traditions (Lazarsfeld, Kish, and others)	Francis Galton, Karl Pearson (early empirical tradition); formalized in social science by Fred Kerlinger
ประเภท	Quantitative observational research design	Non-experimental quantitative research design
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Menard, S. (2002). Longitudinal Research (2nd ed.). Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-0761922827	Creswell, J. W. (2014). Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches (4th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1452226101
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	descriptive panel study, panel survey descriptive design, repeated cross-sectional descriptive panel, panel descriptive research	descriptive study, descriptive survey design, observational descriptive research, non-experimental descriptive research
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	4	3
สรุป	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.	Descriptive research is a non-experimental quantitative design that systematically documents the characteristics, frequencies, or distributions of variables in a defined population at a given point in time. It answers 'what is' questions — who, what, when, where, and how much — without manipulating variables or drawing causal conclusions. It is one of the most widely used research designs across the social, behavioral, health, and education sciences.