期刊
SURVEY RESEARCH METHODS
卷 11, 期 2, 页码 171-188出版社
EUROPEAN SURVEY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
DOI: 10.18148/srm/2017.v11i2.7158
关键词
administrative records; informed consent; mode effects; employment survey; record linkage
资金
- German Research Foundation (DFG) of DFG Research Center (SFB) [882]
In an effort to reduce data collection costs survey organizations are considering more cost-effective means of data collection. Such means include greater use of self-administered interview modes and acquiring substantive information from external administrative records conditional on respondent consent. Yet, little is known regarding the implications of requesting record linkage consent under self-administered survey modes with respect to consent rates and consent bias. To address this knowledge gap, we report results from a linkage consent study in which employees in an employment survey were randomly assigned to an interviewer-administered (face-to-face) or self-administered (mail/web) interview, which included a consent question to link to federal employment records. We observed a strikingly lower linkage consent rate in the self-administered (53.9 percent) versus the interviewer-administered (93.9 percent) survey mode. However, the impact of survey mode on linkage consent bias was much less severe: survey-measured correlates of linkage consent did not interact with mode and relative consent biases in the linked-administrative variables tended to be small (less than 6 percentage points) under both mode groups; though, linkage consent biases in the administrative variables were larger in the self-administered mode group compared to the interviewer-administered mode group, on average. We discuss the implications of these findings for survey practice and speculate on their possible causes.
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