PaCo - Field Report of Survey on Sensitivity Ratings of Attitude and Behavior Questions

As part of the PaCo project, a follow-up study was conducted to assess the level of sensitivity of selected questions from the main study by asking a new sample of respondents to rate the questions regarding their sensitivity, i.e., whether a question would cause people to lie or misreport about the addressed issue.

The project “Mechanisms of Panel Conditioning in Longitudinal Studies: Reflection, Satisficing, and Social Desirability” (PaCo) is a joint research project realized in cooperation with GESIS – Leibniz Institute of the Social Sciences, ZPID – Leibniz Institute for Psychology, and Utrecht University. The project addresses the existence, magnitude, and mechanisms of panel conditioning effects – a potential measurement error in longitudinal studies that threatens the validity and quality of panel data. The PaCo-project comprises two data collection streams: a non-probability panel study and a probability-based panel study. In total, the studies comprise 6 consecutive survey waves. This data set and its corresponding codebook comprise the data from the non-probability data collection stream.

The documentation of the PaCo project comprises the study description and methods report, the field report of the non-probability panel study, and a CheatSheet containing an overview of the study design, the data's missing value scheme, and the variable naming convention.