The Globalization of Personal Data (GPD) Project International Survey on Privacy and Surveillance

For Canada, U.S.A., France, Spain, and Hungary, respondents were screened to ensure nationally representative samples based on gender, age and regional distribution.

For Mexico and Brazil, quasi-national sampling was employed where urban samples were used instead of nationally representative samples.

In China, respondents were chosen from 7 major cities and attempts were made to make the sex and age quotas reflect demographic composition in China. For population distribution in the Chinese survey, see the Methodology Document.

In Japan, respondents were selected from a database to complete an online questionnaire. Respondents were screened to ensure an even distribution by gender and age.

Participants were asked to complete a 20-25 minute survey.

Interviews in Canada, U.S.A., France, Spain, and Hungary were administered over the telephone using Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI) technology. Respondents were screened to ensure nationally representative samples based on gender, age and regional distribution.

In Mexico and Brazil, interviews were conducted in person. Quasi-national sampling was employed in these countries, where urban samples were used inste ad of a nationally representative sample.

In China respondents were selected from 7 major cities. Interviews were administered over the telephone using Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI) technology.

In Japan, respondents completed an on-line questionnaire and were divided equally between men and women as well as region, age, education, income, occupation, and employment status.

The GPD project at Queen's University conducted the international survey on privacy and surveillance using a single survey instrument and set of questions in nine countries: Brazil, Canada, France, Hungary, Mexico, Spain, USA, China and Japan. The survey process was led by Elia Zureik, along with his colleagues connected with the Surveillance Studies Centre. Prior to quantitative questionnaire phase of the survey, qualitative focus group interviews were carried out in all nine countries. The qualitative data was used to develop the questionnaire used to collect the cross-national data.

The Japanese survey was web-based using the internet for the purpose to reach a national survey of 18 years and older. It was carried out at the end of 2007, and resulted in 516 valid responses divided equally between men and women. As well, the survey divided the respondents by region, age, education, income, occupation, and employment status.

The Chinese survey was carried out by Millenriver Marketing Research, an independent vendor in Beijing, and supervised by Professor Guo Lian g, who is an expert on the internet in China and a researcher with the Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences. The China sample was confined to three large metropolitan cities: Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou; and four provincial capitals: Chengdu, Wuhan, Xi’an, and Shenyang.

National statistical work is not well developed in China. The researchers responsible for the Chinese survey could only obtain approximate data. They tried to make the sex and age quotas reflect demographic composition in China.

For this purpose, they used the total population numbers and sex ratios of the seven cities surveyed by the end of 2005 to determine the sample numbers and sex distribution in each city, which were also the latest data available because the National Bureau o f Statistics of China conducted recent sampling of the population covering 1% of the nation's total population in 2005. The tables in the Methodology Document show the population survey results and corresponding sample quotas and sample distribution by city, gender and age.

Seven-Country File
7088 respondents from:

• Canada - 1,001 respondents
• U.S.A. - 1,000 respondents
• France - 1,002 respondents
• Spain - 1,000 respondents
• Hungary - 1,005 respondents
• Mexico - 1,080 respondents
• Brazil - 1,000 respondents

China File

• 2002 respondents

Japan File

• 516 respondents