I have been immersing myself in panel data for the last two days over here at LSE. Given this, it was good timing this afternoon when one of my class-mates mentioned an interesting company called "Research Now". With my familiarity of panel-data econometrics at its peak, I was suitably interested to read about this company --- which maintains research-only online panels in 31 countries -- including Europe, North & Latin America, Asia and Australia-Pacific.
The compnay also runs a panel in Ireland --- "it has extensively profiled information on a range of subjects e.g. respondent region, age, social class, household size and status, cars owned... bank and financial products used... ailments suffered..." A more comprehensive list of the information gathered in the Ireland panel is available here. I was particularly interested in the structure of the "occupational group" and "industry sctor" variables. There are also some questions that would interest economists who might want to do empirical work on intra household-bargaining.
Finally, I also saw on the Research Now website that there is a a conference on panel data coimg up in Dublin in October: "ESOMAR Panel Research Conference, Oct 21-23, Dublin". Its organised by ESOMAR, who are "the world organisation for enabling better research into markets, consumers and societies." Although the focus at this event is not academic, it may interest some blog readers --- particularly those looking for a wide range of applications using panel-data analysis techniques.
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