Summary information

Study title

Willingness to Participate in Passive Mobile Data Collection

Creator

Keusch, Florian (Universität Mannheim)

Study number / PID

ZA6977, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.13246 (DOI)

Data access

Information not available

Series

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Abstract

The goal of this study is to measure willingness to participate in passive mobile data collection among German smartphone owners. The data come from a two-wave web survey among German smartphone users 18 years and older who were recruited from a German nonprobability online panel. In December 2016, 2,623 participants completed the Wave 1 questionnaire on smartphone use and skills, privacy and security concerns, and general attitudes towards survey research and research institutions. In January 2017, all respondents from Wave 1 were invited to participate in a second web survey which included vignettes that varied the levels of several dimensions of a hypothetical study using passive mobile data collection, and respondents were asked to rate their willingness to participate in such a study. A total of 1,957 respondents completed the Wave 2 questionnaire. Wave 1 Topics: Ownership of smartphone, mobile phone, PC, tablet, and/or e-book reader; type of smartphone; frequency of smartphone use; smartphone activities (browsing, e-mails, taking photos, view/ post social media content, shopping, online banking, installing apps, using GPS-enabled apps, connecting via Bluethooth, play games, stream music/ videos); self-assessment of smartphone skills; attitude towards surveys and participaton at research studies (personal interest, waste of time, sales pitch, interesting experience, useful); trust in institutions regarding data privacy (market research companies, university researchers, statistical office, mobile service provider, app companies, credit card companies, online retailer, and social networks); concerns regarding the disclosure of personal data by the aforementioned institutions; general privacy concern; privacy violated by banks/ credit card companies, tax authorities, government agencies, market research companies, social networks, apps, internet browsers); concern regarding data security with smartphone activities for research (online survey, survey apps,...
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

12/12/2016 - 22/02/2017

Country

Germany

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Panel

Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Non-probability: Quota
Quotas for gender and age were used based on the known smartphone penetration in Germany.

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)
Respondents could complete the questionnaire on a PC, tablet or smartphone.

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

2019

Terms of data access

A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.

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