The longitudinal survey project Dynamics of Mobilisation (DYNAMOB), proposed by Florent Gougou and Vincent Tiberj, focusses on the formation of preferences and choices regarding different types of elections. DYNAMOB differs from conventional surveys in that it covers both electoral and non-electoral periods on an extended period of time (2013-2017).

All the DYNAMOB waves are now published and complete the data catalogue on the CDSP's website:

          2013 : Wave 1 - Wave 2
          2014 : Wave 3 - Wave 4 - Wave 5 - Wave 6 - Wave 7
          2015 : Wave 8 - Wave 9 - Wave10 - Wave 11 - Wave 12
          2016 : Wave 13 - Wave 14
          2017 : Wave 15 - Wave 16 - Wave 17 - Wave 18

The Lifestyle and society survey is now available on the CDSP website.
With data collected in December 2014, the survey aims at asking to ELIPSS Panel members a small part of the ESS (European Social Survey) Round 7 wave questionnaire. This part of the questionnaire is about subjective well-being, personal values and politics, as well as trust in others and institutions. The replication of the ESS survey in a probabilist web panel is also an unprecedented occasion to compare data collected in two different ways, and thus to measure the impact of collection mode on the results of a quantitative survey.

Presented by Mathieu Durand-Daubin, the Diversity of lifestyle and energy consumption peaks (MOVIPIC) survey aims at identifying the diversity in energy consumption amongst French households. By exploring the notion of lifestyle, which brings together values and practices, the survey focuses on the relations between energy consumption peaks in the evenings (rather than the average consumption which is more frequently studied) and on the diversity of household activities and equipment used.
In order to achieve this, the survey had three different steps : after a first questionnaire asking for the household's equipment (inspired by logbooks), MOVIPIC then consisted of two separate investigations during weekday evenings (from 5pm).
Data of the survey, collected in February 2015, is now available on the CDSP website.

The ELIPSS Panel has allowed in a few years to gather an impressing amount of very precise and diverse data, which sheds a light on the most recent trends of social situations, practices and attitudes in France.

The Center for Socio-Political Data (CDSP) now would like to invite the Academic community to contribute to a collective book with a chapter proposal: the aim of the book is to gather and emphasize research entreprises made with data collected by ELIPSS.

To know more about the call to book chapters, click here.

Presented by Rémy Caveng, the Tastes, morals, social groups (MORACT) survey focuses on "morals in action" or "moral economies". Translated in daily life as refusals, rejections or simple avoidance, those "moral economies" allow for the revealing of "distinction" mechanisms and all sorts of hierarchicalization taking place in the social space, by emphasizing those moral "loathings".
If the sociology of morals has long used litterary data, promoters of a renewal of "moral economies" now mainly advocate for ethnographic research to be the main tool to grasp the mechanisms at work. MORACT takes up the task of revealing "moral economies" through a quantitative survey and a questionnaire which emphasized definite answers.
Data of the study, collected in October 2014,  is now available on the CDSP website.

The Attitudes Towards Alternative Partnership Arrangements (ATAPA) survey is now available on the CDSP website.
Its data collected in June 2014 questions the definition of family, at the very moment when in France and more generally in Europe numerous transformations regarding the formation of partnerships (cohabitation, alternative civil unions, etc.) and parentality (LGBT parenting, having children without being married, etc.). The aim was to study panel members' attitudes towards what are often called "alternative" partnership arrangements, as well as understanding which ones were identified as "families".

Four waves of the survey "Dynamics of Mobilization: Understanding how electoral choices take shape (2013-17)" are now available on the CDSP's website. They cover the entire electoral period of 2014.

The Cross-National Replication of Question Design Experiments survey is now available on the CDSP’s website.

Through Experiments for Survey Question Evaluation, H. Silbert, J. A. Krosnick, T. H. Stark and A. Blom, researchers on sociology and social psychology, aim at studying questions used in quantitative surveys throughout multiple countries. The goal was to study the main principles of survey design (satisficing, social desirability, etc.), in order to evaluate to what extent results based on data collected mainly in the United States can be generalized across countries.

This survey project thus has resulted in the replication and collection of data from those experiments in multiple web panels across the world.

In France, the survey was administered in April 2014, during the pilot phase of ELIPSS. Through diverse opinion questions (on housing, crime, unionism, etc.), experiments were made on the effects of wording, non-response categories, order of categories and order of questions.

Other ELIPSS datasets are also available :

- Digital practices – wave 2 (2014)
- Digital practices – wave 3 (2015)
 

The 2017 conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) is held at Lisbon, Portugal, from 17 to 21 July 2017.

It is the occasion to present ELIPSS from the panel management to different results obtained from ELIPSS data.

Alexandre Chevalier, Elodie Petorin, "ELIPSS : how to improve and create the panel management activities"

Simon Le Corgne, Emmanuelle Duwez, Malick Nam, Matthieu Olivier, "From face-to-face to mobile Internet: replicate the French ESS questionnaire on the ELIPSS panel"

Emmanuelle Duwez, "New methods for inquiring general population mobility. The example of an on-line questionnaire enhanced by interactive maps"

Anne Cornilleau, Anne-Sophie Cousteaux, "Comparing social attitudes and digital practices between experienced and fresh respondents in a probability-based web panel"

Anne Cornilleau, Anne-Sophie Cousteaux, "Using data from ELIPSS, the French probability based internet panel"

>> To know more about ESRA 2017

The ELIPSS project is a unique opportunity for researchers in social sciences to conduct surveys to a probability-based online panel of about 3100 individuals representative of the population living in France (metropolitan area) aged 18-79.

In this innovative web-mobile system, the panel members were recruited from a random sample. They are invited each month to answer questionnaire(s) of 30 minutes maximum from the ELIPSS tablet that they were given when entering the panel.

The on-going call for projects is open to the entire scientific community until the 24th of February. The selected projects will be realised free of charge in 2018.

The call for proposals can be dowloaded here.

The datasets of three surveys on sexuality (FECOND), on environment (EVALENE) and on intergenerational solidarity (SOLIGENE) are now available on the CDSP's website.

They are also available for download on the réseau Quetelet application, where you can order the datasets.

For 5 months, face-to-face interviewers of the Ipsos institute have been recruiting panelists drawn in the census. The new panelists are equipped with an Archos tablet and 87% of them have already answered the first ELIPSS survey.

Now, the panel ELIPSS consists of 3,000 individuals exactly.

This recruitment phase will end in September.

Anne Cornilleau, Anne-Sophie Cousteaux, Stéphane Legleye, Nirintsoa Razakamanana and the ELIPSS team,  Bilan du pilote de l’Etude longitudinale par internet pour les sciences sociales (ELIPSS): 2012-2015, Report of the project realised for the Commission Démographie et questions sociales du CNIS, septembre 2015, 45 p.

The ELIPSS project is a unique opportunity for researchers in social sciences to conduct surveys to a probability-based online panel of 3500 individuals representative of the population living in France (metropolitan area) aged 18-79.

In this innovative web-mobile system, the panel members were recruited from a random sample. They are invited each month to answer questionnaire(s) of 30 minutes maximum from the ELIPSS tablet that they were given when entering the panel.

The on-going call for projects is the first one focusing on the enlarged sample of about 3,500 panel members. It is open to the entire scientific community until the 16th of November. The selected projects will be realised free of charge at autumn 2016.

The call for proposals can be dowloaded here.

Three research engineer of the Centre de données socio-politiques (CDSP) de Sciences Po received the crystal medal of the CNRS the 22nd of September. Anne Cornilleau, Anne-Sophie Cousteaux and Geneviève Michaud are rewarded for their decisive role in setting up the ELIPSS panel.

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The survey about cultural participation, media and digital practices, fielded in June 2013, is now available on the CDSP's website. This survey was proposed by Philippe Coulangeon and Olivier Donnat during the first call for projects open in the pilote phase of ELIPSS.

In keeping with the tradition of the surveys on cultural practices, PMTI aims to test the robustness of some traditional indicators in the context of an innovative self-administered questionnaire on the internet.

This survey is also available for download on the réseau Quetelet application, where you can order the dataset.

Emmanuelle Duwez, Matthieu Olivier, "Adapting survey questionnaires to touch-screen tablets. The ELIPSS Panel example"

Mélanie Revilla, Anne Cornilleau, Anne-Sophie Cousteaux, Stéphane Legleye, Pablo de Pedreza, "What is the gain in a probability-based online panel to provide Internet access to sampling units that did not have access before?"

Stéphane Legleye, Nirintsoa Razakamanana, Anne Cornilleau, Anne-Sophie Cousteaux, "What drives the participation in a monthly research web panel? The experience of ELIPSS, a French random web panel in the general population"

Anne Cornilleau, Anne-Sophie Cousteaux, Stéphane Legleye, Nirintsoa Razakamanana, "Setting-up a probability-based web panel. Lessons learned from the ELIPSS Pilot Study"

>> Conference Programme

Since the first call for proposals in 2011, 32 survey projects were submitted. The average rate of selection by the scientific and technical board is 65 %, most of the time after requests of modification or revision.

Since the beginning of 2013, 26 surveys were conducted on quite various topics and with high response rates (82% on average). The attrition is moderate since it is 16% after more than two-year surveying. A little more of the half of the 168 drop-out of the panel are ruled exclusions because of repeated non-responses.

The ELIPSS panel is now composed of 871 panel members. The pilot study is getting to the end. A new recruitement is programmed at the Automn 2015 to increase the size of the panel with 2700 new panel members which should be reached at the Spring 2016.

The documentation of the ELIPSS Annual survey - wave 1 (2013) is now available from the CDSP Nesstar server and the data can be requested from the portal of the réseau Quetelet.

The ELIPSS project is a unique opportunity for researchers in social sciences to conduct surveys to a probability-based online panel representative of the population living in France (metropolitan area ).

In this innovative web-mobile system, the panel members were recruited from a random sample. They are invited each month to answer questionnaire(s) of 30 minutes maximum from the ELIPSS tablet that they were given when entering the panel.

ELIPSS is at the end of the pilot study which started at the end of 2012 with 1 000 panel members. Any research team can submit a project which has to respect an exclusively scientific purpose. The selected surveys will be freely administered to the active panel at the end of 2015 or early 2016. Considering the sample size (900 active panel members at the end of 2014), projects focusing on methodological experiments will be given priority.

The CORDI survey is in line with survey experiments conceived by Luc Boltanski et Laurent Thévenot in the early 80's. It was supposed to study the lay perceptions of the social stratification. The CORDI project includes two designs of survey and consists in adapting these designs to an internet survey on the ELIPSS mobile device. The "occupation game" was conducted during the summer 2014 and the "portraits game" is the on-going survey.

Anne Cornilleau, Anne-Sophie Cousteaux, Stéphane Legleye, Nirintsoa Razakamanana and the ELIPSS team, Le recrutement du panel ELIPSS, Report of the project realised with the funding support granted by the INPES (grant n°060/12-DAS), June 2014, 38 p.