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 …

consent) does not constitute valid consent under data protection law. In this context, the Court also provided guidance on the … referring to both consent and other matters. It thus missed a valuable opportunity to provide further clarity on how consent can …

their written consent. This paper explores whether characteristics of the respondent, the interviewer or survey design … features influence consent. We use the BHPS combined with a survey of interviewers to model the probability that respondents … consent to adding health and social security records to their survey responses. We find that some respondent characteristics …

range of administrative health records. Multivariate analysis is applied to investigate whether there is consent bias. We … find that consent on the BHPS is not biased with respect to socio-economic characteristics or health; recent users of GP … services are underrepresented among consenters. Whilst consent rates are lower than on previous surveys with a more medical …

consent to download the app and sharing GPS geo-positions. Our findings show that neither geo-tracking nor the provision of …