Short-term election campaign panels data collected at the time of the 2009 and 2013 German generalas. The data was collected as part of the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES).
The campaign-panel allows for an analysis of individual changes of political attitudes and political behaviour over the course of the campaign. Therefore, a constant selection of respondents is interviewed up to seven times during the campaign within short intervals – six times before the election and once afterwards. In 2009, 4,552 respondents participated in the campaign-panel. 3,301 respondents were interviewed at least four times and 1,462 respondents were interviewed seven times. The 2013 campaign-panel started with 5,200 responded interviews and pursues the aim of at least 3,000 respondents completing four interviews and at least 1,500 respondents completing all seven panel waves.