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Willingness of Participation in an Application Based Digital Data Collection among Different Social Groups and Smartphone User Clusters

Ákos Máté, Zsófia Rakovics, Szilvia Rudas, Levente Wallis, Bence Ságvári, Ákos Huszár, Júlia Koltai

The main question of this article is what factors influence willingness to participate in a smartphone application-based data collection where participants both fill out a questionnaire and let the app collect data about their smartphone use. Passive digital data collection is becoming more common, but it is still a new form of data collection. Due to the novelty factor, it is important to investigate how willingness to participate in such studies is influenced by both socio-economic variables and smartphone usage patterns. We estimate multilevel models based on a survey experiment with vignettes for different characteristics of data collection (e.g. different incentives, duration of the study). Our results show that of the socio-demographic variables, age has the largest effect, with younger age groups having a higher willingness to participate than older ones. Similarly, smartphone use also has an effect on participation, with advanced users more likely to participate than the social media user group. We also found that users who only use the basic functions of their device are less likely to participate. Finally, the interaction terms between levels showed that the circumstances of data collection matter differently for different social groups. These results provide important guidance on how to fine-tune circumstances to improve participation rates in this novel passive digital data collection.

 

Determinants of willingness to donate data from social media platforms

Zoltán Kmetty, Ádám Stefkovics, Júlia Számely, Dongning Deng, Anikó Kellner, Edit Pauló, Elisa Omodei, Júlia Koltai

Social media data donation through data download packages (DDPs) is a promising new way of collecting individual-level digital trace data with informed consent. When linked with survey data, data donation is an even more promising tool that helps answer novel research questions. Nevertheless, given the novelty of this approach, little is known about whether and how people would share their data with researchers, although this could seriously affect selection bias and thus, the outer validity of the results. To study the determinants of data-sharing and help future data donation studies with detecting the conditions, under which the willingness is the highest, we  pre-registered  two  vignette  experiments  and  embedded  them  in  two  online  surveys conducted in Hungary and the U.S. In hypothetical requests for donating social media data via DDPs, we manipulated the amount of the monetary incentives (1), the presence or lack of non-monetary incentives (2), the number of requested platforms (3), the estimated upload/download time (4), and the type of requested data (5). The results revealed that data-sharing attitude is strongly  subject  to  the  parameters  of  the  actual  study,  how  the  request  is  framed,  and  some respondent  characteristics.  Monetary  incentives  increased  willingness  to  participate  in  both countries,  while  other  effects  were  not  consistent  between  the  two  countries.  Non-monetary incentives and time to download/upload data influenced willingness in the U.S. sample but not in the Hungarian one, whereas the type of data affected the willingness to participate only in the  case  of  the  Hungarian  respondents.  Our  findings  help  design  more  effective  future  data donation  requests  and  provide  insights  into  the  potential  patterns  of  selection  bias  in  data donation studies.

Keywords: data donation, DDP, data-sharing, digital trace data, linking survey data

 

Prestige-based occupational homophily and societal openness

Sandeep Chowdhary, Dongning Deng, Federico Battiston, and Julia Koltai

Homophily is the tendency of individuals to associate with others who are similar to them in some way, such as sharing similar backgrounds, interests, values, or demographic characteristics. Occupational homophily in families, in particular, refers to the inclination to choose careers that are similar to those of their parents or other family members. Research has shown that homophily of occupations within families is a common phenomenon. For example, studies have found that children of doctors are more likely to become doctors themselves, and that the children of lawyers are more likely to enter the legal profession. This phenomenon can have a significant impact on societal openness, particularly within families. In this work, we quantify occupational prestige homophily and its impact on societal openness, particularly within families. We utilized the Position Generator dataset (International Social Survey Programme 2017) to construct occupational networks in 30 countries . While the structure of occupational networks varied among countries, low prestige occupations were consistently segregated. Furthermore, highly developed countries were found to exhibit greater prestige-based segregation within families, suggesting a less open social structure. The results suggest that developing countries are more open to diverse career paths within families, while developed countries are less open. Taken together, our work sheds light on the complex relationship between occupations, social networks, societal development, and societal  openness.

Keywords: homophily, occupations, networks, prestige, position generator

 

Elfogadott konferenciaelőadások 

2022

The Presence of Social Structure in the Online Space

Júlia Koltai

CIVICA Research Conference. Central European University, Budapest.

 

Social Differences in Willingness of Participation in Donation Based Data Collection.

Júlia Koltai, Zoltán Kmetty, Ádám Stefkovics, Júlia Szamely, Elisa Omodei, Yijing Chen, and Deng Donging

Conference on Complex Systems. Complex System Society, Palma de Mallorca.

 

2023

Investigating Willingness of Participation in a Passive Digital Data Collection: the Role of Social-Demographic Characteristics and Smartphone Usage based on a Survey Experiment.

Ákos Máté, Zsófia Rakovics, Szilvia Rudas, Bence Ságvári, Ákos Huszár, Júlia Koltai

ESRA 2023 Conference. European Survey Research Association, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan.

 

Determinants of willingness to donate data from social media platforms

Zoltán Kmetty, Ádám Stefkovics, Júlia Számely, Dongning Deng, Anikó Kellner, Edit Pauló, Elisa Omodei, Júlia Koltai