Survey researchers are increasingly seeking opportunities to link interview data with administrative records. However, obtaining consent from all survey respondents (or certain subgroups) remains a barrier to performing record linkage in many studies. We experimentally investigated whether emphasizing different benefits of record linkage to respondents in a telephone survey of employee working conditions improves respondents' willingness to consent to linkage of employment administrative records relative to a neutral consent request. We found that emphasizing linkage benefits related to "time savings" yielded a small, albeit statistically significant, improvement in the overall linkage consent rate (86.0) relative to the neutral consent request (83.8 percent). The time savings argument was particularly effective among "busy" respondents. A second benefit argument related to "improved study value" did not yield a statistically significant improvement in the linkage consent rate (84.4 percent) relative to the neutral request. This benefit argument was also ineffective among the subgroup of respondents considered to be most likely to have a self-interest in the study outcomes. The article concludes with a brief discussion of the practical implications of these findings and offers suggestions for possible research extensions.

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福利框架是否会提高记录链接同意率？调查实验。

调查研究人员越来越多地寻求机会将访谈数据与行政记录联系起来。然而，在许多研究中，获得所有调查对象（或某些子组）的同意仍然是执行记录链接的障碍。我们通过实验调查了在员工工作条件的电话调查中强调记录链接与受访者的不同好处是否会提高受访者相对于中立的同意请求同意就业行政记录链接的意愿。我们发现，相对于中立的同意请求（83.8%），强调与“节省时间”相关的链接益处虽然具有统计学意义，但总体链接同意率（86.0）略有改善。节省时间的论点在“忙碌”中特别有效 受访者。与“提高研究价值”相关的第二个好处论点相对于中立请求没有产生在联系同意率（84.4%）方面的统计学显着改善。在被认为最有可能对研究结果有自身利益的受访者亚组中，这种利益论点也无效。文章最后简要讨论了这些发现的实际意义，并为可能的研究扩展提供了建议。在被认为最有可能对研究结果有自身利益的受访者亚组中，这种利益论点也无效。文章最后简要讨论了这些发现的实际意义，并为可能的研究扩展提供了建议。在被认为最有可能对研究结果有自身利益的受访者亚组中，这种利益论点也无效。文章最后简要讨论了这些发现的实际意义，并为可能的研究扩展提供了建议。