Participant Preferences for Anonymized Data Sharing & Licensing
Measures research participants' comfort with anonymized data sharing, preferred licensing models, repository preferences, and required safeguards. Designed for IRB-compliant studies where researchers need informed consent data on secondary data use.
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How familiar are you with Creative Commons or other data-sharing licenses?
How comfortable are you with sharing anonymized data from this study with other researchers?
If this anonymized dataset were shared, which license type would you most prefer?
Please rank the following repository types in order of your preference for depositing this anonymized dataset (1 = most preferred).
Which safeguards do you believe should be in place before anonymized data are shared? Select all that apply.
Based on your responses in this survey, please share any additional conditions, concerns, or thoughts that would affect your comfort with anonymized data sharing and licensing.
What is your age group?
Thank you for completing this survey. Your responses have been recorded and will be used in aggregate to inform data-sharing policies. If you have any questions, please contact the research team.
Have you previously contributed data to a research study that was later shared or deposited in a public repository?
How concerned are you about the possibility that anonymized data could be linked back to you (re-identification)?
When choosing a data license, how important is it to you that others must give proper attribution when using the data?
After your data have been deposited in a repository, which best describes your preference for data withdrawal?
We'd like to explore your views on anonymized data sharing in a bit more depth. An AI moderator will ask you a couple of follow-up questions based on your earlier responses.
How do you describe your gender?
Which types of data would you be comfortable sharing in anonymized form? Select all that apply.
How important is it to you that the data cannot be used for commercial purposes?
What is the highest level of education you have completed?
How important is it to you that reuse of the data is as easy and unrestricted as possible for other researchers?
What is your current employment status?
In which region do you currently reside?
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