Acceptance of the Automated Online Collection of Geographical Information

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2331005
AutoresBarbara Felderer (0000-0002-1717-0415, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, autor de correspondencia), Annelies G Blom (0000-0003-0377-301X, University of Mannheim)
Año2022
Volumen51
Número2
Páginas866-886
Fecha de publicación2022-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociological Methods & Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0049-1241 • E-ISSN: 1552-8294
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0049124119882480
OpenAlexW2993285648
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas21

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

Data collection · Geography · German · Human–computer interaction · Internet privacy · JavaScript · Sample (material) · Set (abstract data type) · Statistics · The Internet · Tracking (education) · Usability · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Survey Methodology and Nonresponse