Willingness of Participation in an Application-Based Digital Data Collection among Different Social Groups and Smartphone User Clusters
The main question of this paper 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 on their smartphone usage. Passive digital data collection is becoming more common, but...
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| author | Ákos Máté Zsófia Rakovics Szilvia Rudas Levente Wallis Bence Ságvári Ákos Huszár Júlia Koltai |
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| description | The main question of this paper 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 on their smartphone usage. 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 behaviour. 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 influence, with younger age groups having a higher willingness to participate than older ones. Smartphone use also has an impact on participation. Advanced users are more likely to participate, while users who only use the basic functions of their device are less likely to participate than those who use it mainly for social media. Finally, the explorative analysis with interaction terms between levels has shown that the circumstances of data collection matter differently for different social groups. These findings provide important clues on how to fine-tune circumstances to improve participation rates in this novel passive digital data collection. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8a81bd8d873f4aeca81bb057e4e083d52023-11-17T23:46:18ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202023-05-01239457110.3390/s23094571Willingness of Participation in an Application-Based Digital Data Collection among Different Social Groups and Smartphone User ClustersÁkos Máté0Zsófia Rakovics1Szilvia Rudas2Levente Wallis3Bence Ságvári4Ákos Huszár5Júlia Koltai6MTA–TK Lendület “Momentum” Digital Social Science Research Group for Social Stratification, Centre for Social Sciences, Tóth Kálmán Utca 4, 1097 Budapest, HungaryMTA–TK Lendület “Momentum” Digital Social Science Research Group for Social Stratification, Centre for Social Sciences, Tóth Kálmán Utca 4, 1097 Budapest, HungaryMTA–TK Lendület “Momentum” Digital Social Science Research Group for Social Stratification, Centre for Social Sciences, Tóth Kálmán Utca 4, 1097 Budapest, HungaryMTA–TK Lendület “Momentum” Digital Social Science Research Group for Social Stratification, Centre for Social Sciences, Tóth Kálmán Utca 4, 1097 Budapest, HungaryMTA–TK Lendület “Momentum” Digital Social Science Research Group for Social Stratification, Centre for Social Sciences, Tóth Kálmán Utca 4, 1097 Budapest, HungaryMTA–TK Lendület “Momentum” Digital Social Science Research Group for Social Stratification, Centre for Social Sciences, Tóth Kálmán Utca 4, 1097 Budapest, HungaryMTA–TK Lendület “Momentum” Digital Social Science Research Group for Social Stratification, Centre for Social Sciences, Tóth Kálmán Utca 4, 1097 Budapest, HungaryThe main question of this paper 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 on their smartphone usage. 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 behaviour. 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 influence, with younger age groups having a higher willingness to participate than older ones. Smartphone use also has an impact on participation. Advanced users are more likely to participate, while users who only use the basic functions of their device are less likely to participate than those who use it mainly for social media. Finally, the explorative analysis with interaction terms between levels has shown that the circumstances of data collection matter differently for different social groups. These findings provide important clues on how to fine-tune circumstances to improve participation rates in this novel passive digital data collection.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/9/4571data collection methodssurvey experimentsmartphone datadigital trace datawillingness of participation |
| spellingShingle | Ákos Máté Zsófia Rakovics Szilvia Rudas Levente Wallis Bence Ságvári Ákos Huszár Júlia Koltai Willingness of Participation in an Application-Based Digital Data Collection among Different Social Groups and Smartphone User Clusters Sensors data collection methods survey experiment smartphone data digital trace data willingness of participation |
| title | Willingness of Participation in an Application-Based Digital Data Collection among Different Social Groups and Smartphone User Clusters |
| title_full | Willingness of Participation in an Application-Based Digital Data Collection among Different Social Groups and Smartphone User Clusters |
| title_fullStr | Willingness of Participation in an Application-Based Digital Data Collection among Different Social Groups and Smartphone User Clusters |
| title_full_unstemmed | Willingness of Participation in an Application-Based Digital Data Collection among Different Social Groups and Smartphone User Clusters |
| title_short | Willingness of Participation in an Application-Based Digital Data Collection among Different Social Groups and Smartphone User Clusters |
| title_sort | willingness of participation in an application based digital data collection among different social groups and smartphone user clusters |
| topic | data collection methods survey experiment smartphone data digital trace data willingness of participation |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/9/4571 |
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