The Polish Panel Survey, POLPAN

Tomescu-Dubrow, Irina; Slomczynski, Kazimierz M.; Sawiński, Zbigniew; Kiersztyn, Anna; Janicka, Krystyna; Życzyńska-Ciołek, Danuta; Wysmulek, Ilona; Kotnarowski, Michał

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“…We use the Polish Panel Survey, POLPAN, one of the longest continuously run panel studies in Central and Eastern Europe that focuses on individuals’ life course, socio-economic structure, and inequality ( Tomescu-Dubrow et al, 2021 ). The longitudinal design of the survey means POLPAN’s data are well suited for research on the health consequences of intergenerational social mobility ( Zelinska et al, 2021 ).…”

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Social Mobility, Health and Wellbeing in Poland

2021

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Recently there has been a surge of interest in the consequences of intergenerational social mobility on individuals’ health and wellbeing outcomes. However, studies on the effects of social mobility on health, using high-quality panel survey data, have almost exclusively been conducted in Western welfare democracies. To account for this gap, and using empirical data from one of the largest and most eventful post-communist countries, Poland, in this study we investigate how individuals’ origin and destination socio-economic position and social mobility are linked to self-rated health and reported psychological wellbeing. We use the Polish Panel Survey (POLPAN) data to construct self-rated health and psychological wellbeing measures, origin, destination and occupational class mobility variables, and account for an extensive set of sociodemographic determinants of health. We employ diagonal reference models to distinguish social mobility effects from origin and destination effects, and account for possible health selection mechanisms. Our results suggest that there is an occupational class gradient in health in Poland and that both parental and own occupational class matter for individual health outcomes. We also find a positive reported psychological wellbeing effect for upward social mobility from the working to the professional class.

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Social Mobility, Health and Wellbeing in Poland

2021

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“…Besides, some of the variables of interest to us, such as marital status, were not available in both datasets, which further limited the comparability of our results. POLPAN is the oldest panel dataset in central and eastern Europe and its quality is ensured by rigorous data collection procedures (Tomescu-Dubrow et al, 2021). Yet, it is conducted in five-year intervals, which leaves space for many unaccounted-for changes to happen to survey participants from one wave to the next.…”

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“…The main data source that we use is the Polish Panel Survey (POLPAN) run by the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN). This dataset was designed to study socioeconomic structure and inequalities, as detailed in the recent data description reports (Tomescu-Dubrow et al, 2021;. In POLPAN, the same respondents have been interviewed about various aspects of their lives every five years, since 1988, with the most recent wave, Wave 7, being fielded in 2018.…”

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“…Longitudinal analysis of data can potentially mitigate some of the statistical problems. In this study we use data from the Polish Panel Survey (POLPAN), which is one of the longest continuously run panel studies in Europe (Tomescu-Dubrow et al, 2021). This dataset is well suited to the study of perceived social mobility, as it is one of the few panel surveys explicitly asking individuals about their social mobility perceptions.…”

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What are the Trends and Explanations of Perceived Social Mobility in Poland?

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Zelinska

2022

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There is an increasing interest in the subjective aspect of socioeconomic position and its implications for wellbeing across social science disciplines. One of the emerging dimensions of this scholarship is research on perceived social mobility, its determinants, and consequences. To date, most existing evidence in this area is based on cross-sectional data and corresponding methods, which are biased by the unobserved heterogeneity of individuals. The latter calls into question existing findings on the nature of perceived social mobility. To provide more robust estimates of trends over time and explanations of perceived social mobility, we explore two complementary datasets covering the period between the late 1990s and the late 2010s in Poland. Due to the major economic, political and social changes, exploring subjective perceptions of intergenerational mobility might be particularly important in post-communist settings. The analysis allows us to conclude that, over the last two decades, significant changes in perceived social mobility have taken place in Poland. In terms of the individual-level predictors of this trend, cross-sectional and random-effects analyses over-estimate the importance of certain characteristics, such as age, education, or size of locality, yet, based on the results from more robust fixed-effects estimates, we conclude that factors such as subjective social position, household income, and objective social mobility are important explanations as to why some people believe they are doing better or worse than their parents.

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“…POLPAN uniquely captures opinions preceding and following the profound social and political transformations in Poland. It includes questions on meritocratic beliefs that were first asked in 1988 and remained practically unchanged throughout the successive waves to maximize comparability across time (Tomescu-Dubrow et al, 2021). 2.…”

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Generational differences in attitudes to meritocracy: Sources of change in valuing education, innate abilities, and hard work in Poland

Wysmulek

Wysmułek

2023

Acta Sociologica

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Although the generational experiences of young adults are believed to have an enduring impact on their attitudes throughout the life course, it remains unclear whether periods of stability versus different types of radical social change lead to substantive generational differences. In this paper, we examine attitudes toward meritocracy of four generations in Poland whose young adulthood was spent in (a) the “Little Stabilization” period of the 1960s and early 1970s; (b) the economic and political crisis of the late 1970s and 1980s; (c) the turbulence of the political and economic transformation of the 1990s; and (d) the relative stability of the first decade of the 21st century after Poland's accession to the European Union. Our data come from surveys dating back to 1988, before the regime change in Poland, and until 2020. The results show changing attitudes toward the value of education, innate abilities, talent, and hard work in Poland. There is a generational effect on perceived meritocracy. The generation of people born in 1956–1959, who entered adult life during the deep crisis of the socialist state, expresses the greatest distrust in meritocracy. Findings suggest that the experience of spending one's youth and young adulthood in a relatively stable political and economic system, either socialist or capitalist, has a positive influence on meritocratic attitudes.

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The Polish Panel Survey, POLPAN

Cited by 8 publications

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Social Mobility, Health and Wellbeing in Poland

Social Mobility, Health and Wellbeing in Poland

What are the Trends and Explanations of Perceived Social Mobility in Poland?

Generational differences in attitudes to meritocracy: Sources of change in valuing education, innate abilities, and hard work in Poland

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