Table 3. Considerations that would increase willingness to share.
| How likely would each of the following considerations increase your willingness to share qualitative data through a repository? | Frequency of Participants Willing to Share (%) |
|---|---|
| If sharing increased the societal impact of research. | 353 (83%) |
| If I knew my participants would agree to data sharing. | 339 (80%) |
| If sharing led to increased collaborations. | 322 (76%) |
| If sharing decreased the burden on participant communities. | 308 (72%) |
| If secondary data users needed to cite their data sources in all publications. | 294 (69%) |
| If data could be reused to explore new research questions. | 283 (67%) |
| If sharing made data from publicly-funded research more widely available. | 286 (67%) |
| If repositories provided a secure infrastructure for data storage. | 279 (66%) |
| If those who share data are invited to be co-authors on papers that use data. | 275 (65%) |
| If funding agencies required data to be shared. | 266 (63%) |
| If sharing helped avoid duplication of work. | 260 (61%) |
| If sharing data created the opportunity for students to learn how to analyze data. | 257 (60%) |
| If sharing allowed for verification of data interpretation. | 230 (54%) |
| If sharing positively influenced career promotion decisions. | 226 (53%) |
| If repositories provided a central catalog of available data sets. | 214 (50%) |
| If sharing led to increased citations. | 205 (48%) |
| If journals required data to be shared. | 201 (47%) |
The degree to which each consideration would increase willingness to share qualitative data were rated on a scale of 1 (not at all likely), 2 (somewhat unlikely), 3 (neutral), 4 (somewhat likely), or 5 (very likely). Participants were considered willing to share if they rated 4 or 5.