For SHARE Respondents in the Czech Republic
Statement concerning data protection and absolute confidentiality of your personal information
The Survey of Health, Ageing and
Retirement in Europe (SHARE) is an international study
conducted under the responsibility of the European
Research Infrastructure Consortium SHARE-ERIC in
cooperation with its Scientific Partner Institutions.
In the Czech Republic currently the the Czech Academy
of Sciences is responsible for SHARE-CZ the national
implementation of the survey. With the implementation
of the interviews we have commissioned SCaC in Prague.
All parties involved are working in accordance with
the legal provisions of data protection.
The purpose of the study is to help researchers better
understand the needs and circumstances of people aged
50 or older and their families. It aims at providing
scientists with data on health, socio-economic status
and social and family networks to address their
research questions in relation to the process of
population ageing. The study is funded in the Czech
Republic by the Ministry of Education, Youth, and
Sports in the Czech Republic and the European
Commission.
You have been randomly selected to participate in the
survey. Your participation in this survey is of course
absolutely voluntary.
The results of the survey will be presented in an
anonymised form only, i.e. without your names and
address. This means that from the results nobody will
be able to identify the person who has provided the
information in an interview.
The same applies to follow-up interviews with you,
which are of importance for understanding the process
of ageing, and to interviews with relatives of
deceased survey participants, which are important in
order to complete their life histories. Information of
different interviews relating to the same person is
only linked via a code number, i.e. without names and
addresses.
We do not transfer any data that reveals your identity
to third parties.
Responsible for the compliance with the data
protection provisions are:
Radim Boháček, PhD
Country team leader of the SHARE project in the Czech
Republic
Národohospodářský ústav AV ČR
SHARE-ERIC
Politických vězňů 7, 111 21 Praha 1, the Czech
Republic
Prof. Axel Börsch-Supan, Managing Director of
SHARE-ERIC
Amalienstrasse 33, 80799 Munich,
Germany
Ass. Jur. Heidi Schuster, Data Protection Officer of
SHARE-ERIC
Hofgartenstrasse 8, 80539 Munich,
Germany
What happens with the information that you provided?
1. The interviewers from SCaC enter your answers in
the computer by selecting the appropriate response
categories.
2. The information provided by you during the
interview will be stored together with a code number
and without your names and address so that it cannot
directly be attributed to you.
3. Addresses and names are strictly stored separately
from the information provided by you during the
interview. This data will be stored until the end of
the SHARE study only. The SHARE study ends after the
last wave of data collection and the subsequent data
cleaning and quality checks that are necessary to
prepare a final anonymised data set for the purpose of
research.
4. After collection of the individual interviews, they
will be compiled without names and addresses and the
interview data will be analysed (e.g.: Table of
results regarding labour situation).
5. Results in scientific
publications are only shown in groups (e.g. men,
women). Information on individual persons is not
recognisable.
6. In the event of follow-up interviews with the same
persons, addresses and names are always stored
separately from the information provided in the
interviews as well.
In any case the following applies:
Your participation in this survey is absolutely
voluntary. This applies in the same manner to this
interview and all its parts as well as to future
interviews in the course of the study.
Non‑participation will not lead to any disadvantages
for you. You can also withdraw consent at any time
with effect for the future.
Furthermore, you have the right of access, correction
and deletion of your personal data, the right of
restriction of processing concerning your person or to
object to processing as well as the right to data
portability.
In case of any questions with regard to data
protection, please contact the Data Protection Officer
of SHARE-ERIC, Mrs. Heidi Schuster, by calling
+49-(0)89-2108-1554 or Mr. Radim Bohacek (see
contacts). For other questions concerning the study,
please contact SCaC, by calling Mr. Filip Oliva at the
survey agency SCaC.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the
supervising authority:
Úřad pro ochranu osobních údajů, Pplk. Sochora 27, 170
00 Praha 7, phone +420 234 665 111, Fax: +420 234 665
444, email: posta@uoou.cz, or Data
Protection Authority of Bavaria, postal address:
Postfach 606, 91511 Ansbach, Germany, Phone:
+49-(0)981-53-1300, Fax: +49(0)981-53-98-1300, email:
poststelle@lda.bayern.de.
During the interview you will also be asked some
questions that also concern persons that are closely
related to you. This information is collected on the
legal basis of our legitimate interests in connection
with the research purposes described in this
statement. Therefore, we kindly ask you, to also show
this information to the other persons in your
household so that they are informed about this data
processing and their rights in this respect.
We thank you for your participation and your trust in
our work!