Acceptance of the Automated Online Collection of Geographical Information

Autor/inn/en	Felderer, Barbara; Blom, Annelies G.
Titel	Acceptance of the Automated Online Collection of Geographical Information
Quelle	In: Sociological Methods & Research, 51 (2022) 2, S.866-886 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Felderer, Barbara) ORCID (Blom, Annelies G.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0049-1241
DOI	10.1177/0049124119882480
Schlagwörter	Data Collection; Online Surveys; Geographic Location; Individual Characteristics; Participant Characteristics; Internet; Programming Languages; Informed Consent; Social Science Research; Foreign Countries; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Data capture; Datensammlung; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Social scientific research; Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung; Ausland; Deutschland
Abstract	The ease at which online paradata can be captured in web surveys seems to increase social researchers' desire to collect such data. Yet little attention is paid to whether respondents actually approve of their collection. This article, therefore, studies online survey respondents' acceptance of automatically collecting their geographical locations. In wave 4 of the German Internet Panel, we asked respondents for their consent to automatically track their location using a JavaScript. Respondents were also asked to report their location in a set of traditional survey questions. About 62 percent of respondents consented to the automated collection of their location whereas 97 percent provided their location manually. With respect to consent biases, we find evidence that the composition of the achieved sample of geo-located respondents is biased and that the personal characteristics associated with respondents' willingness to be geo-located differ between the automated tracking and manual provision of geo-information. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01