Congratulations on being a participant in UCNets. Whether you are new to our panel, or joined us in 2016, we hope you found the survey to be interesting, and allowed you to think about the people you know in expansive ways, adding both insight and appreciation. The following documentation is for your reference. We hope to have ‘follow up’ surveys to explore new topics in the future.
Because your privacy is of utmost importance to us, we are providing here the ‘Informed Consent’ documents which outline our commitment to you, and your rights as a study participant.
Parent Study (recruitment in 2015-2016)
1. Informed Consent for the screener survey (to see if you qualify for the survey)
2. Informed Consent for the main survey.
If you wish to let us know about a change in address, have a question, or some other inquiry, call the toll-free number 877-932-0614, or write to us at ucnets@berkeley.edu.
- There were 3 waves of interviewing for the parent survey. The first was completed in early 2016, and the second in spring 2017, and the third wave in spring 2018. We are currently conducting an additional project to recruit people to our sample in summer of 2019.
- We interviewed two age groups: people who were, in 2016, aged 21-30, and people aged 50-70.
- In the first wave, most people completed the survey with a face-to-face interview in the comfort of their own home, or other place of their choosing, and a smaller group of people received web surveys. In the second wave a smaller proportion completed it as a face-to-face interview, and in the third wave more people completed a web survey than an in-person interview.
- Each interview took about an hour.
- Our participants did not have to answer all questions, although the more they did, the better the quality of the data.
- We sought people who are committed for the entire 3 waves, but if for some reason a participant could not continue, they were certainly free to leave the study (92% of participants in wave 2 continued in wave 3).
- After completing each of the three surveys and/or interviews, participants received a check as a way of thanking you for your time.
- We will do our best to keep in touch with you in between the waves and let you know about research reports that you can read. (And of course, none of your personal information will be shared or identifiable in any way!).
LGB Study (recruitment in 2017)
If you are part of the LGBT study, please visit the project webpage for additional information.
Summer 2019 Recruitment
Currently planned is one wave of recruitment in July-August 2019. The recruitment used a telephone IVR invitation to take a web survey, again seeking those aged 21-30 and 50-70 in the SF Bay Area, as with the parent study. The Informed Consent for this study can be downloaded here .