Swedish Citizen Panel for researchers

Those of us who work with the Swedish Citizen Panel have extensive and broad methodological expertise. We also continuously conduct our own research in order to develop and improve survey methods and our data collections. With 70 000 active participants and hundreds of conducted data collections since 2010, we assist researchers from various fields in designing and implementing studies of high scientific quality, regardless of complexity.

The Swedish Citizen Panel have 70 000 active participants. Many participants have been part of the panel for a long time, some even since the panel started in 2010. Participants in the Swedish Citizen Panel are not offered economic incentives for their participation. Instead, short summaries of research articles published with data collected in the panel are regularly published on the page Research and results from the Swedish Citizen Panel (Swedish).

Approximately 75% of the panel is self-recruited. The self-recruited panelists are recruited using a various number of methods. These consist mainly of informational ads, snowball sampling, and recruitment through a voting advice application in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. The remaining 25% are recruited using a probability-based recruitment method. For the randomly recruited part of the panel, we systematically and regularly recruit new participants through the Swedish population registry, with a particular focus on hard-to-reach sociodemographic groups. Consult the Swedish language version of the website for a list of Technical reports for the probability-based recruitments to the Swedish Citizen Panel. The level of representativity is high in both parts of the panel, albeit that the randomly recruited panel sample is more similar to the Swedish population. For information about the panel’s composition on key variables, please refer to the page Panel composition (Swedish).

Regardless of sample type, we can tailor samples to researchers’ needs and preferences. Invited samples can be made representative of the Swedish population based on gender, age, level of education, and geographic region. We can also assist with post-stratification weighting. The panel size also provides strong opportunities to reach specific target groups, such as individuals with a particular occupation.

The Swedish Citizen Panel is widely used by researchers, including the Political Science departments in Gothenburg, Lund, and Uppsala, but also the Department of Psychology at the University of Gothenburg, as well as the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and several departments at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg. Outside of Sweden, the Swedish Citizen Panel has contributed to research at institutions such as Stanford University, the London School of Economics, McGill University in Canada, Universidad Autonoma in Barcelona, and the European University Institute in Florence. For a list of research articles based on data from the Swedish Citizen Panel, please refer to the page Scientific publications (Swedish).