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Table 5 Characteristics of the sample and willingness to share own and decesased family data

From: A two-site survey of medical center personnel’s willingness to share clinical data for research: implications for reproducible health NLP research

Participant characteristics

N (percentage)

Willing or somewhat willing to share own data, identified

Willing or somewhat willing to share own data, de-identified

Willing or somewhat willing to share deceased family member data

Age

 18–25

189 (6.8%)

54.1%

90.0%

80.4%

 26–40

1195 (43.3%)

51.3%

89.6%

81.5%

 41–55

929 (33.6%)

51.7%

88.3%

80.9%

 56+

450 (16.3%)

55.5%

90.9%

81.19%

 Pearson chi-square

4.07, p = 0.25 (slight differences due to chance)

3.0, p = 0.41 (slight differences due to chance)

2.47, p = 0.48 (slight differences due to chance)

Gender

 Male

768 (27.8%)

52.3%

89.7%

82.3%

 Female

1992 (72.2%)

52.6%

89.1%

81.4%

 Pearson chi-square

0.02, p = 0.88 (slight differences due to chance)

0.18, p = 0.67 (slight differences due to chance)

0.25, p = 0.62 (slight differences due to chance)

Education

 High school/GED

74 (2.7%)

59.5%

85.1%

83.8%

 Some college

512 (18.5%)

53.5%

89.4%

81.0%

 College graduate

927 (33.5%)

52.2%

89.1%

80.6%

 Graduate/Prof. degree

1251 (45.3%)

51.9%

89.5%

82.7%

 Pearson chi-square

1.88, p = 0.6 (slight differences due to chance)

1.44, p = 0.70 (slight differences due to chance)

2.02, p = 0.57 (slight differences due to chance)

Employment status

 Faculty

613 (22.2%)

51.9%

88.4%

81.7%

 Staff

1907 (69.0%)

52.2%

89.6%

82.2%

 Student

140 (5.1%)

61.3%

92.1%

80.7%

 Other

102 (3.7%)

52.0%

85.3%

73.5%

 Pearson chi-square

4.67, p = 0.2 (slight differences due to chance)

3.57, p = 0.31 (slight differences due to chance)

4.98, p = 0.17 (slight differences due to chance)