Working paper Understanding Society Working Paper Series

Understanding and improving data linkage consent in surveys

By Annette Jäckle, Jonathan Burton, Mick P. Couper, Thomas F. Crossley and Sandra Walzenbach

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Series: Understanding Society Working Paper Series
Series number: 2021-01
Publication date: 2 February 2021
Pages: pp. 1–68

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This report summarizes findings from a project that aimed to improve our understanding about how to pursue the twin goals of maximizing consent to data linkage and ensuring that consent is genuinely informed. Using experimental data from the Understanding Society Innovation Panel and the PopulusLive online access panel, we examined (1) how respondents process requests for data linkage, (2) why web respondents are less likely to give consent than face-to-face respondents, (3) how respondents process multiple requests for consent, and (4) what effects different approaches to wording consent questions have on informed consent.

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Jäckle, A. et al. (2021) Understanding and improving data linkage consent in surveys, Understanding Society Working Paper Series, No.2021-01. Colchester: University of Essex

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        author = {Jäckle, A. and Burton, J. and Couper, M. P. and Crossley, T. F. and Walzenbach, S.},
        title = {Understanding and improving data linkage consent in surveys},
        institution = {University of Essex},
        number = {No.2021-01},
        type = {Understanding Society Working Paper Series},
        year = 2021,
        address = {Colchester}
        }

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