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Correlates of Obtaining Informed Consent to Data Linkage

Sala, Emanuela; Burton, Jonathan; Knies, Gundi - In: Sociological Methods & Research 41 (2012) 3, pp. 414-439

to give their consent. Using an unprecedented set of respondent, interview, and interviewer characteristics derived from … the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) matched with an interviewer survey, this research investigates which … characteristics influence consent to adding health and social security records to the survey responses. We find that consent is …

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Linking Survey and Administrative Records

Sakshaug, Joseph W.; Couper, Mick P.; Ofstedal, Mary Beth; … - In: Sociological Methods & Research 41 (2012) 4, pp. 535-569

informed consent from respondents. Obtaining consent from all respondents is a difficult challenge and one that faces … significant resistance. Consequently, data linkage consent rates vary widely from study to study. Several studies have found … underlying mechanisms of consent from a theory-driven perspective. In this study, we describe and test several hypotheses related …

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Which Schools and Pupils Respond to Educational Achievement Surveys? A Focus on the English PISA Sample

Schnepf, Sylke V.; Durrant, Gabriele B.; Micklewright, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Using logistic and multilevel logistic modelling we examine non-response at the school and pupil level to the important educational achievement survey Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for England. The analysis exploits unusually rich auxiliary information on all schools and...

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Ethnic parity in labour market outcomes for benefit claimants in Great Britain

Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; Mesnard, Alice; … - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2010

Accurate estimates of the extent of ethnic parity amongst benefit claimants are very important for policymakers who provide interventions for these groups. We use new administrative data on benefit claimants in Great Britain to document differences in labour market outcomes between Ethnic...

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The Role of Islamic Banking System as the Milestone towards Indonesia Micro Economy Development

Rahajeng, DIAN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

As the largest Muslim community in the world, Indonesia is optimist on implementing Islamic economy as one of the system. The previous global financial turmoil has made the attention turn on the Islamic financial model, and in particular the Islamic banking system. This model offers a...

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What childhood characteristics predict psychological resilience to economic shocks in adulthood?

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 45 (2014) C, pp. 84-101

This paper investigates whether people’s psychological resilience to one of the most important economic shocks – job loss – can be predicted using early childhood characteristics. Using a longitudinal data that tracked almost 3000 children into adulthood, we showed that the negative effect...

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“Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who in this land is fairest of all?”—Distributional sensitivity in the measurement of socioeconomic inequality of health

Erreygers, Guido; Clarke, Philip; Van Ourti, Tom - In: Journal of Health Economics 31 (2012) 1, pp. 257-270

This paper explores four alternative indices for measuring health inequalities in a way that takes into account attitudes towards inequality. First, we revisit the extended concentration index which has been proposed to make it possible to introduce changes into the distributional value...

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Estimation of Covariate Effects With Current Status Data and Differential Mortality

Palloni, Alberto; Thomas, Jason - In: Demography 50 (2013) 2, pp. 521-544

The assessment of the impact that socioeconomic determinants have on the prevalence of certain chronic conditions reported by respondents in population surveys must confront two problems. First, the self-reports could be in error (false positives and false negatives). Second, those reporting are...

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Locating Lists of People on the Web: RosterFinder

Sweeney, Latanya - 2003

Among the vast amounts of personal information published on the World Wide Web (“Web”) and indexed by search engines are lists of names of people. Examples include employees at companies, students enrolled in universities, officers in the military, law enforcement personnel, members of...

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Non-response biases in surveys of schoolchildren: the case of the English Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) samples

Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke; Skinner, Chris J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

We analyse response patterns to an important survey of schoolchildren, exploiting rich auxiliary information on respondents' and non-respondents' cognitive ability that is correlated both with response and the learning achievement that the survey aims to measure. The survey is the Programme for...

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