Censuses, Surveys and Privacy

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Impact of Privacy upon Social Research....Pages 3-21
Privacy in Modern Industrial Society....Pages 22-36
Does Research Threaten Privacy or Does Privacy Threaten Research?....Pages 37-54
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Introduction....Pages 57-67
Survey Research and Privacy....Pages 68-86
The Issue of Privacy in Public-opinion Research....Pages 87-95
Resistance to Community Surveys....Pages 96-111
Is the Public Acceptability of Social Survey Research Declining?....Pages 112-119
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Introduction....Pages 123-131
Census Confidentiality in Britain....Pages 132-157
Parliament and the British Census since 1920....Pages 158-169
Invasion of Privacy: the Case of the United States Census....Pages 170-175
The Protection of Privacy and the United States Census....Pages 176-183
Census-taking and the Debate on Privacy: a Sociological View....Pages 184-198
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Maintaining Public Confidence in Quantitative Social Research....Pages 201-208
Strengthening Public Confidence in Social Survey Research: the British Case....Pages 209-219
Protecting Statistical and Research Data from Improper Use....Pages 220-233
Methods for Assuring Personal Integrity in Social Research: an Introduction....Pages 234-248
Back Matter....Pages 249-279