Methods note · IRISP/2026/002
Survey Ethics and Anonymisation: The IRISP® Protocol
The institute's binding protocol for fieldwork: informed consent, anonymisation at collection, retention limits, and the participant's right to withdraw.
Abstract
This methods note publishes, in full, the ethics protocol that binds every IRISP® field study. It covers informed consent and how it is documented, anonymisation at the moment of collection, the separation of contact data from response data, retention and deletion schedules, and the participant's unconditional right to withdraw.
The protocol is written to satisfy the strictest applicable regime among those the institute works under, including Türkiye's Law No. 6698 (KVKK) and the GDPR. Where regimes differ, the stricter rule governs.
Publishing the protocol is itself a methodological commitment: participants, partners and readers can hold the institute to a written standard rather than a stated intention.
This publication is open access. It may be shared and reproduced freely with attribution to IRISP®. Read by a synthetic voice; the text is authoritative.