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The American Population Panel (APP) was launched in the summer of 2017 by CHRR. The APP is a group of volunteer members, 18 years or older living in the United States, who agree to participate in social science and health related studies.
It is a resource used to help researchers target various population subgroups and match potential participants to their studies. By having members already committed to participate, the APP helps researchers get their projects up and running more inexpensively than if they had to recruit people themselves.
The panel has over 55,000 members (as of 11/2024) living in all 50 states and we continually recruit new members in order to provide a diverse demographic makeup for researchers to choose from for their projects. In addition, utilizing the panel offers researchers the exciting opportunity to undertake longitudinal surveys with the same respondents.
Read the Collaborative Public Opinion Survey in Ohio: A Proposal and learn how this initiative can provide awareness of the eight Ohio Earthworks sites by sampling Ohioans in the American Population Panel.
Highlighted projects
NSASS is a landmark survey of 4,000 U.S. adults designed by principal investigator Dr. Chris Knoester, Associate Professor in Sociology (OSU), that collects information on sports-related attitudes and the dimensions and contexts of sports involvement experiences. Wave 2 of this study will be launching in Fall of 2024. Additional information about the survey is located on our NSASS study details.
The U.S. Dads Survey and corresponding co-parent study were designed by principal investigators at Brigham Young University to better understand the experiences of American fatherhood. Round 2 of the survey will be launched in winter 2024/2025 to collect longitudinal data from Dads who participated in the first round.
Mini Surveys are brief surveys run by the American Population Panel and are used for pilot studies, seed grants, testing survey questions, and student thesis projects. Visit our Mini Survey project page to view a sample of survey topics.
