News on data sharing and consent practices:

Across the UK, there is much interest in linking social science studies and surveys to respondents’ routine administrative records, which are generally held by government departments.  Such linkage improves the power and utility of research data by including new information that may not be easily obtained and reduces the costs, time and resources necessary to collect such additional data using traditional methods.  Typically, consent requests are made to link to a person’s health, education and economic routine records.

 The ADLS has recently reviewed the existing consent practices used by some of the major social science studies and surveys in the UK.  Read the rest of this entry →