The Center for Socio-Political Data (CDSP) from Sciences Po coordinates the panel .

The CDSP is in charge of the production process of the surveys, namely the organisation and the follow-up of calls for proposals, the organisation of the technical and scientific board activities, the preparation of the surveys together with the research teams, the programming of the questionnaires, the panel management activities, the documentation and dissemination of data. The CDSP also manages the IT aspects of the project, mainly the development of the tools and the host of the servers. As coordinator, the CDSP is responsible for the progress reports to the French National Research Agency (ANR), for the budget management and for the out-sourcing contracts (with survey agencies and the telephone company).  

The CDSP is also in charge of monitoring of the statistical quality (attrition, weights, etc.) of the ELIPSS data, initially managed by INED.

Members of the operational team (2019):

   •  Coordination: Emmanuelle Duwez
They also provided these functions: Anne Cornilleau and Anne-Sophie Cousteaux
   •  Partnership and Panel Refreshment: Malick Nam
   •  Panelist management and follow-up: Charlotte Montcharmont and Elodie Pétorin
They also contributed to these activities: Gabrielle Bouchet, Kevin Boudelle, Carmen Calandra and Patricia Sossa
    •  Statistical quality of the panel: Thomas Pilorin
They also contributed to these activities: Stéphane Legleye (resp.) and Nirintsoa Razakamana
   •  Survey design and data production: Emmanuelle Duwez, Mathieu Olivier and Jean-Baptiste Portelli
He also contributed to these activities: Djery Sow
   •  Documentation and dissemination of data: Valentin Brunel, Alina Danciu and Alexandre Mairot
 

The ELIPSS project was built and supported by the CDSP's IT resources. Over time, the following people contributed to these activities: Alexandre Aazzouz, Quentin Agren, Alexandre Chevallier, Simon Dellac, Adrien Ferreira, Daniele Guido, Anthony Jacques, Geneviève Michaud (resp.), Romain Mougin, Raphaël Paoloni, Jérémy Richard, Baptiste Rouxel and Adam Schaal.

In addition, the ELIPSS project benefited from the occasional participation of Bernard de Clédat and Patricia Thauvin from the INED's survey department, particularly concerning the recoding of socio-professional categories.

The DIME/Quanti scientific and technical board (CST) selects the survey projects submitted by research teams during calls for proposals and evaluates the requests for data matching. 

At least half of the experts should not be affiliated to one institution of the DIME-SHS consortium. It includes one representative of the INSEE due to the sample drawing by the institute and the surveys approval by the National Council for Statistical Information (CNIS).

Members of the scientific and technical board (2019):

• Rémy Caveng, associate professor in Sociology at the University Picardie Jules Verne (Centre Universitaire de Recherches sur l'Action Publique et le Politique, Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique et Laboratoire de Sociologie Quantitative)
• Joanie Cayouette-Remblière, sociologist, researcher at the INED
• Jérôme Cubillé, researcher at EDF R&D
• François Denord, researcher in Sociology at the CNRS (Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique)
• Céline Goffette, researcher at the CEREQ
• Anne Jadot (CST chair), associate professor in Political Science at the University of Lorraine
• Dominique Joye, full professor in Sociology at the University of Lausanne
• Cécile Lefèvre, full professor in Sociology at the University Paris Descartes (Centre de recherche sur les liens sociaux)
• Muriel Letrait, engineer at the University Paris Descartes (Centre de recherche sur les liens sociaux)
• Pierre Mercklé, full professor in sociology at the University of Grenoble Alpes (PACTE)
• Gaël de Peretti, survey methodologist at the INSEE
• Élise Tenret, associate professor in Sociology at theUniversity Paris Dauphine
• Karine van der Straeten, researcher in Economy and Political Science at the CNRS (Toulouse School of Economics)
• Loup Wolff, researcher at the INSEE
• Sonja Zmerli, full professor in Political Science at Sciences Po Grenoble (PACTE)

François Beck, Michel Bozon, Bernard Denni, Julien Duval, Guy Michelat and Isabelle Récotillet were members of the board between 2012 and 2016.

The ELIPSS Panel is part of a larger project DIME-SHS (Données, Infrastructures, Méthodes d’Enquêtes en Sciences Humaines et Sociales) in which seven research institutions are involved : the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED), the Groupe des Écoles Nationales d'Économie et Statistique (GENES), the Paris Descartes University, the engineering school Télécom ParisTech, EDF R&D and the Réseau Quetelet (French Data Archives for Social Sciences).

The Blaise (4.8) software is used to design the questionnaires and to collect data. Developed by Statistics Netherlands, this software is dedicated to surveys conducted by National Statistics Offices.

CentERdata, responsible for the LISS panel, helped us to set-up the project from the very beginning in 2011, especially by providing their panel management tool.

Samsung tablets (Galaxy Tab 2, 7 inches) and 3g plans were provided through the telecom company Bouygues Telecom during the pilot study. For the second recruitment in 2016, a partnership with the French IT manufacturer Archos was concluded and panelists were equipped with an Archos tablets (Helium 80b, 8 inches) and an unlimited 4G internet subscription provided by Bouygues Telecom.