find that consent on the BHPS is not biased with respect to socio-economic characteristics or health; recent users of GP … focus, the problem of bias is less of an issue. -- data linkage ; consent ; BHPS ; selection bias ; health inequality …The British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) is the first study of its kind to have asked for permission to link to a …

Using new survey data of teachers in England we investigate the propensity for teachers to consent to data linkage …, differences by observable characteristics and the effect of a randomly assigned information intervention. We find that consent … the independent sector are significantly less likely to consent. While we find that the provision of additional …

Consent to data linkage (or the lack of it) has long been an important topic for researchers using survey data. In this … propensity to consent to link their survey data to their educational, health and recreational administrative records. In addition …, we investigate how participant consent rates di er by linkage topic and respondent characteristics. Finally, we …

and the design of survey fieldwork procedures, using a comparative approach based on data from the UK BHPS and Australian …

BHPS (Understanding Society) in the UK or the SOEP in Germany, combined with an oversampling of twins, provide a powerful …