Changes in platform economy taxation - data & code

<p dir="ltr"><b>This repository contains:</b></p><ul><li>raw data files (data was collected between 7 and 22 February 2022)</li></ul><ol><li>df_anonymous (in R format)</li><li>df_anonymous.csv (a comma-separated-file)</li></ol><p><br></p><ul><li>programs to analyze the data (Analysis_for_OSF.html)</li></ul><ol><li>Analysis_for_OSF.html (R markdown document with all code to produce the figures and tables of the paper - to be opened in a browser)</li><li>preparation.R (R document to convert the raw data to the anonymous and cleaned data, including some recoding of variables)</li></ol><p><br></p><ul><li>programs to collect the data</li></ul><ol><li>Qualtrics_platformsurvey.pdf (in original language: Dutch)</li><li>Qualtrics_platformsurvey.qsf (in original language: Dutch - original Qualtrics import file)</li><li>Appendix A (Dutch screenshot + English translation of the invitation email)</li><li>Appendix B (Dutch originals + English translation of all survey items)</li><li>Appendix D (Dutch screenshot + English translation of the information on the Tax Authority website for platform sellers, retrieved in December 2022)</li></ol><ul><li>a PDF of the preregistration (also available at https://aspredicted.org/6ax87.pdf)</li><li>a PDF of IRB approval (January 2022)</li></ul><p dir="ltr"><b>Variables </b>(same names used in the raw data, Markdown file and Appendix B)</p><ul><li>treatment (Control/Information)</li><li>supply (Less/Same/More)</li><li>gender (Female/Male/Other)</li><li>duration (length of the survey in seconds, to be used to exclude the lowest 5% of the time distribution according to the preregistration)</li><li>age (in years)</li><li>occupation (Student/Platform work/Self-employed/Parttime/Fulltime/Other)</li><li>income_num (Net household income/month)</li><li>only_income (dummy to indicate whether platform work is a person's only source of income, 1 if hours_platform_prop == 1, 0 otherwise)</li><li>hours_platform (number of hours at work/week via YoungOnes platform, 0-168)</li><li>hours_platform_prop (How does your YoungOnes income relate to your total income? Nothing/Less than half/Approximately half/More than half/Only income)</li><li>trust_others (Most others can be trusted, 5 point scale from 1 = totally disagree to 5 = totally agree, 99 indicating "rather not say") [recoding can be found in "preparation.R"]</li><li>trust_govt (The Dutch government can be trusted, 5 point scale from 1 = totally disagree to 5 = totally agree, 99 indicating "rather not say")</li><li>trust_platforms (Digital platforms can be trusted, 5 point scale from 1 = totally disagree to 5 = totally agree, 99 indicating "rather not say")</li><li>self_report_know (How well are you aware of tax regulations with regard to income earned on gig platforms? 5 point scale from 1 = very uninformed to 5 = very informed)</li><li>regulation_easy (dummy to indicate "great, this saves quite some administrative work" was ticked at the regulation_opinion question)</li><li>regulation_fair (dummy to indicate "Fair, this way all gig workers are taxed equally" was ticked at the regulation_opinion question)</li><li>regulation_more_tax (dummy to indicate "Annoying, now I need to pay more taxes" was ticked at the regulation_opinion question)</li><li>regulation_opinion_other (open answer box if regulation_other dummy == 1)</li><li>regulation_other (dummy to indicate "Other, namely" was ticked at the regulation_opinion question)</li><li>regulation_unnecessary (dummy to indicate "Not necessary, I can handle this myself" was ticked at the regulation_opinion question)</li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p>