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Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 6:48 am
While data sources are becoming increasingly available to social scientists (e.g., social media data), linking administrative data to survey data often requires respondents informed consent to the linkage.
In many countries obtaining consent is a thailand rcs data legal requirement – in the UK this is covered by the Digital Economy Act. Since not all respondents give their consent, this may create a source of bias if the respondents who consent are systematically different than those who do not.
While there are empirical tools to correct for this bias, there is a growing literature in Survey Methodology that studies how consent rates differ by participants characteristics and how researchers can design surveys to maximise consent rates.
Information matters
In an earlier project I investigated the plausibility, and potentially implications, of data linkage in the context of teachers and the effect of a light-touch information intervention (additional information on the data linkage process) on the decision to consent to link teachers survey data with their employment records.
In many countries obtaining consent is a thailand rcs data legal requirement – in the UK this is covered by the Digital Economy Act. Since not all respondents give their consent, this may create a source of bias if the respondents who consent are systematically different than those who do not.
While there are empirical tools to correct for this bias, there is a growing literature in Survey Methodology that studies how consent rates differ by participants characteristics and how researchers can design surveys to maximise consent rates.
Information matters
In an earlier project I investigated the plausibility, and potentially implications, of data linkage in the context of teachers and the effect of a light-touch information intervention (additional information on the data linkage process) on the decision to consent to link teachers survey data with their employment records.