The POLAT panel started in 2010, almost a decade and a half ago as a joint venture with the CIS, at the moment under the direction of Belen Barreiro as president, and Mónica Méndez as head of the research area. The CIS funded the first four waves. The panel continued funded by different research projects of the Democracy, Elections and Citizenship of the UAB.

One of the first online surveys in Spain, and one of the first panels on public opinion, the POLAT panel was a challenging project at a time when not everyone had internet access. We have tracked 4,633 Spanish individuals along time, which makes for an unbalanced panel of 20,991 observations distributed along twelve waves fielded between 2010 and 2020. Questions include perceptions of the economy, most important problem, government evaluations, emotions, media consumption, social media use, citizens and parties’ attitudes towards different political issues (i.e. immigration, abortion, gay rights, taxes, public expenditure, territorial organization, law and order, feminism, climate change), political attitudes (i.e. interest, efficacy, left-right identification, satisfaction with democracy, duty to vote, trust, partisanship, authoritarianism, populism, sexism), territorial and national identities, psychological predispositions (i.e. personality, risk aversion, life satisfaction), political participation (including participation in specific protests such as the 15M or the 8M), threat perceptions, political knowledge, turnout, and vote choice among others, as well as a wide range of sociodemographic characteristics.

The data as well as more details ara available at the CORA repository:

Pannico, Roberto; Damjan Tomic; Laura Gutiérrez Zárate; Josep Maria Comellas Bonsfills; Enrique Hernández Pérez; Carol Galais González; Guillem Rico Camps; Danislava Milkova Marinova; Jordi Muñoz; María José Hierro; Berta Barbet; Eva Anduiza Perea (coordinator), 2024, “POLAT Panel. Spanish Political Attitudes Dataset (12 waves)”, https://doi.org/10.34810/data1486, CORA. Repositori de Dades de Recerca

Here you can find some of the publications that are based on the POLAT panel data.