Linkages between surveys and administrative data provide an important opportunity for social and health research, but such linkages often require the informed consent of respondents. We use experimental data collection across five different samples to study how...
This presentation provides an overview of recent efforts in the Understanding Society study to collect biomeasures, including methodological and design implications. The author reports that it is possible to collect biomeasures with interviewers and participant...
This article compares consent to data linkage requests for seven data domains: administrative data, smartphone usage data, bank data, biomarkers, Facebook data, health insurance data, and sensor data. We experimentally explore three factors of interest to survey...
This experimental study of alternative approaches to obtaining informed consent in the GDPR context of the European Union documents the advantages, for survey response rates, of using condensed information and in-text legal references (as opposed to a...
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...
