PaCo - Project Documentation

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.

PaCo Project Documentation - Field Report of a follow-up survey on the sensitivity of different attitude and behavior questions, which were fielded in the main study.