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	การวิจัยเชิงพรรณนาแบบติดตามกลุ่มตัวอย่างเดิม	การวิจัยเชิงสำรวจตามช่วงเวลา
สาขาวิชา	การออกแบบการวิจัย	การออกแบบการวิจัย
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	1940s–1960s	Late 19th–early 20th century; methodologically codified through the 20th century
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Developed within survey methodology and social science panel traditions (Lazarsfeld, Kish, and others)	No single originator; foundational methodological treatments by Stuart Menard and Judith Singer & John Willett
ประเภท	Quantitative observational research design	Quantitative (or mixed) observational research design
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Menard, S. (2002). Longitudinal Research (2nd ed.). Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-0761922827	Menard, S. (2002). Longitudinal Research (2nd ed.). Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-0761922841
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	descriptive panel study, panel survey descriptive design, repeated cross-sectional descriptive panel, panel descriptive research	longitudinal study, longitudinal design, prospective longitudinal study, repeated-measures observational study
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	4	4
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.	Longitudinal research is an observational design in which the same participants, groups, or units are measured repeatedly over an extended period. Rather than capturing a single snapshot, it tracks change, stability, and temporal sequencing of variables — making it the primary non-experimental strategy for studying development, growth, decline, and the unfolding of causal processes across time.