Evaluating Active (Opt-In) and Passive (Opt-Out) Consent Bias in the Transfer of Federal Contact Data to a Third-Party Survey Agency

Sakshaug, Joseph W.; Schmucker, Alexandra; Kreuter, Frauke; Couper, Mick P.; Singer, Eleanor

doi:10.1093/jssam/smw020

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“…Details of the experiment are described in Sakshaug et al . (). Before the fieldwork, a notification letter was sent to 7183 available addresses.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Since the primary purpose of the survey was to explore possible selectivity effects, a random subsample of 10 000 people was asked for consent to address transfer and the consenters' addresses as well as control group addresses were transferred from the German Institute for Employment Research to the survey operator. Details of the experiment are described in Sakshaug et al (2016). Before the fieldwork, a notification letter was sent to 7183 available addresses.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Occupation Coding During the Interview

Schierholz

Gensicke

Tschersich

et al. 2017

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society

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Summary. Currently, most surveys ask for occupation with open-ended questions. The verbal responses are coded afterwards, which is error prone and expensive. We present an alternative approach that allows occupation coding during the interview. Our new technique uses a supervised learning algorithm to predict candidate job categories. These suggestions are presented to the respondent, who in turn can choose the most appropriate occupation. 72.4% of the respondents selected an occupation when the new instrument was tested in a telephone survey, entailing potential cost savings. To aid further improvements, we identify some factors for how to increase quality and to reduce interview duration.

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“…Details of the experiment are described in Sakshaug et al . (). Before the fieldwork, a notification letter was sent to 7183 available addresses.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Sampling and Data Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Occupation Coding During the Interview

Schierholz

Gensicke

Tschersich

et al. 2017

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society

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“…Given that recruitment of participants often suffers from a bias towards higher SES families ( Fry et al, 2017 ; Henrich et al, 2010 ; Sakshaug et al, 2016 ; Wolke et al, 2009 ), particular care was taken to ensure the sample was reflective of the spread of SES in the UK. Participants were primarily recruited through schools that have over 27 % of students receiving free school meals (FSM).…”

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Far and wide: Associations between childhood socio-economic status and brain connectomics

Johnson

Bathelt

Akarca

et al. 2021

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

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“…One of Eleanor Singer’s key contributions to the survey methodological literature—and, indeed, social science literature more broadly—relates to the issue of informed consent. Her contributions in this area covered a wide range of topics, including the effect of the consent request on survey participation (e.g., Singer 1978, 2003; Singer, von Thurn, and Miller 1995; Sakshaug et al 2016), consent to paradata capture (Singer and Couper 2010; Couper and Singer 2013), and attitudes toward administrative data linkages (e.g., Singer, Bates, and van Hoewyk 2011). A core element underlying her work was that the issue of consent in whatever form is not only an ethical one but is also subject to empirical investigation.…”

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The Effect of Framing and Placement on Linkage Consent

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Schmucker²,

Kreuter³

et al. 2019

Public Opinion Quarterly

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Numerous surveys link interview data to administrative records, conditional on respondent consent, in order to explore new and innovative research questions. Optimizing the linkage consent rate is a critical step toward realizing the scientific advantages of record linkage and minimizing the risk of linkage consent bias. Linkage consent rates have been shown to be particularly sensitive to certain design features, such as where the consent question is placed in the questionnaire and how the question is framed. However, the interaction of these design features and their relative contributions to the linkage consent rate have never been jointly studied, raising the practical question of which design feature (or combination of features) should be prioritized from a consent rate perspective. We address this knowledge gap by reporting the results of a placement and framing experiment embedded within separate telephone and Web surveys. We find a significant interaction between placement and framing of the linkage consent question on the consent rate. The effect of placement was larger than the effect of framing in both surveys, and the effect of framing was only evident in the Web survey when the consent question was placed at the end of the questionnaire. Both design features had negligible impact on linkage consent bias for a series of administrative variables available for consenters and non-consenters. We conclude this research note with guidance on the optimal administration of the linkage consent question.

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Evaluating Active (Opt-In) and Passive (Opt-Out) Consent Bias in the Transfer of Federal Contact Data to a Third-Party Survey Agency

Cited by 21 publications

References 28 publications

Occupation Coding During the Interview

Occupation Coding During the Interview

Far and wide: Associations between childhood socio-economic status and brain connectomics

The Effect of Framing and Placement on Linkage Consent

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