nestconsent_w11

nestconsent_w11.nestlink

NEST consent

Type: choice

Source: NEST

Text: We would like to add any records held by the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST), the government-backed pension scheme, to the responses you have given to this study. If you have an account with NEST, these records will include information they hold on your pension savings through employers who’ve enrolled you into NEST, and any savings you’ve made yourself into the scheme. Linking the information will help us to get a fuller picture about who saves with NEST and how their retirement savings are building up.
All information will be used for research purposes only. It will be used by academic or policy researchers under restricted access arrangements which make sure that the information is used responsibly and is held securely. If you decide that you no longer wish to take part in the study you can withdraw your consent at any time. If you withdraw consent, we will retain your NEST information up until that point after which time no further links to the personal data will be made.
Please read this leaflet explaining how we would like to attach your NEST records to the answers you have given in this study and ask me any questions.
INTERVIEWER - PLEASE HAND LEAFLET INFORMATION ON ADDING NEST RECORDS TO RESPONDENT AND ALLOW RESPONDENT TIME TO READ IT AND ASK QUESTIONS.
Under Data Protection Legislation we need you to give your consent for us to pass your name, post code, sex and date of birth to the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) Corporation or a contractor conducting the linkage, so that they can identify whether you have a NEST account, and if so, to link this information to your survey responses. Are you happy to give us your consent?

Universe:
if GRIDVARIABLES.modetype = 1|3 (Mode is face-to-face or web)

• k_nestlink (k_indresp) NEST consent

nestconsent_w11.nesteadd

Email address used link to NEST records

Type: string

Source: UKHLS

Universe:
if GRIDVARIABLES.modetype = 1|3 (Mode is face-to-face or web)
and if NESTlink = 1 & GRIDVARIABLES.modetype = 3 (Consent given to link to NEST records AND mode is web)

nestconsent_w11.nestesent

Email reminder sent of agreement for consent link to NEST records

Type: choice

Source: UKHLS

Universe:
if GRIDVARIABLES.modetype = 1|3 (Mode is face-to-face or web)
and if NESTlink = 1 & GRIDVARIABLES.modetype = 3 (Consent given to link to NEST records AND mode is web)
and if NESTeadd <> MIS (Email address identified)

• k_nestesent (k_indresp) Email reminder sent of agreement for consent link to NEST records

nestconsent_w11.nestemail

Text for email confirming consent

Type: choice

Source: UKHLS

Text: Email text
Subject: Understanding Society: Adding pension records
Dear [Name]
Thank you for taking part in the recent Understanding Society survey. Your continued help with this important social study is greatly appreciated.
During the interview this year, you gave us consent to link your survey responses to the data that is held about you by National Employment Savings Trust (NEST), the government-backed pension scheme. In order to carry out the data linkage we will need to pass on your name, address and date of birth to NEST so that they can identify your administrative records. Once identified, the file containing your administrative records will be anonymised (i.e. your personal details removed) and sent back to us with an identifier which will allow us to link those records to your survey responses. The anonymous dataset will then be created that will contain the linked data, which will be made available to social researchers under restricted access arrangements which make sure that the information is used responsibly and held securely.
The linked information will inform further analyses and help us get a better picture of those who are using services provided by NEST. NEST will never have access to both your personal details and your survey responses at the same time and this will not affect any dealings you have with NEST.
If you would like more information about the data linkage process, please check our website: http://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/participants/nest-records
Thank you
Michaela Benzeval
Understanding Society Director
University of Essex
2. Additional information about email addresses
a)If IV gives email address in CONTACTDETAILS_W5_REMAIL, email is sent to address given. b)If IV refuses email address in CONTACTDETAILS_W5_REMAIL, email is sent to address in the sample. For joiners and continuing respondents for whom there is no email address in the sample, no email will be sent.
c)If IV’s name is updated when doing the grid, email is addressed to the updated name. d)Email address updates in the HH grid are not recognised in the IV script. This is because we don’t transfer updated email addresses from the household script to the IV script via the grid variables. The only scenario where this updated email will be used is if person 1 does the grid and the household interview. in all other cases an email will be sent out to the old email address.
e)Information is not passed from the login script to the IV script as the grid variables are already set. Therefore updates to the person’s name will not be recognised in the IV script and the email will include the previous name. f)If sample has been transferred from CAPI to CAWI, no emails will be sent because the mode type on the grid variables for those respondents would be CAPI and not CAWI.

Universe:
if GRIDVARIABLES.modetype = 1|3 (Mode is face-to-face or web)
and if NESTlink = 1 & GRIDVARIABLES.modetype = 3 (Consent given to link to NEST records AND mode is web)
and if NESTeadd <> MIS (Email address identified)
and if NESTESENT = 1 (Email sent to confirm consent)