The increase in smartphone usage and improvement in related technologies provides researchers with a unique opportunity to collect data from users through passive data collection with smartphone applications. Participant’s willingness to participate in passive mobile...
Data donation is a novel approach to collecting digital trace data, where users are asked to download their retrospective data from a platform and share them with the researchers. Little is known about the willingness to donate data and the potential bias that may...
Surveying transient and other hard-to-reach populations can be especially difficult. In an effort to increase data collection in a group of refugees, a mobile app was offered after an interview in an attempt to collect additional passive data. Unfortunately, many...
This study aimed to understand how different aspects of consent request design in surveys can impact informed consent rates for linking survey data to administrative records. In order to do this, a series of experiments including factors such as readability,...
We use experimental mixed-mode data from a probability survey in Great Britain to examine why respondents are less likely to consent to data linkage in online than face-to-face interviews. We find that the 30 percentage point difference in consent rates is a causal...
