Year: 2015
Module: Data_Sharing_and Privacy
Variable: LINK3

And suppose researchers wanted to find out if babies born prematurely did less well at school so that in future such children should automatically be considered for extra help in the classroom. If the people who keep hospital records link them to school records and pass the researchers this data without names or addresses or other identifiers then the researchers can look at the patterns in the data. Do you think that this should be allowed?

 
%
Yes definitely36
Yes probably36
No probably not10
No definitely not10
Other0
Don't know7



 

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Results for men and women

 
%
 MaleFemale
Yes definitely 36 35
Yes probably 37 36
No probably not 9 11
No definitely not 9 11
Other 0 0
Don't know 7 7



 


 

Results for people of different ages

 
%
 18-2425-3435-4445-5455-6465+
Yes definitely 40 35 37 32 39 35
Yes probably 28 40 33 43 35 36
No probably not 14 8 17 10 7 9
No definitely not 13 8 7 12 10 10
Other 2 0 0 0 0 0
Don't know 3 9 6 3 10 10



 


 

Results for people of different religions

 
%
 CatholicProtestantNo religion
Yes definitely 40 34 33
Yes probably 31 42 34
No probably not 9 9 17
No definitely not 12 10 7
Other 0 0 0
Don't know 7 5 9



 


 

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