Anchoring Vignettes for Privacy (Government - Income)


Question:

How much privacy [do you / does 'Name'] have about [your/his/her] income?

Response categories:

  1. Unlimited
  2. A lot
  3. Moderate
  4. Some
  5. None
Vignettes:
  1. [Ricky] is part of an ethnic group that is described as being among the poorest of groups in the country on the basis of data from the recent Census.
  2. [Horace's] neighborhood is described as impoverished in the local newspaper on the basis of data made available from the recent Census.
  3. [Renaldo's] family income is estimated by a marketing firm. The firm used socioeconomic data disclosed by passage of a new state law. The information, including [Renaldo's] estimated family income is made available on a CD-ROM for marketers.
  4. [Richard] works for the state university. The state government posts his salary on its website.
  5. [Shenalyn's] income tax return is obtained from an IRS computer by a hacker and posted on the Internet.

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