Linking data from longitudinal surveys to administrative records (whether held by government or private entities) is an increasingly attractive option for several reasons. As longitudinal surveys continue to respond to pressures to increase efficiency, and as new...
This presentation provides an overview of an NIMLAS pilot study that aims to examine consent patterns from multi-national, multi-lingual, multi-cultural contexts of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).
The work presents results from the first experimental effort to induce reflective decision making in deciding whether to respond in the positive to survey requests for consent to record linkage. The results of the experiment suggest that efforts to induce reflective...
We report on an experiment in a supplemental web survey as part of a longitudinal study in the United Kingdom where we ask survey respondents to consent to two forms of data linkage to health records and to consent to be mailed a serology kit. We varied the placement...
