» Privacy, Volume 1, Issue 8, 2001

If respondent is concerned about a loss of privacy.

2. A trade-off sometimes exists between privacy on the one hand and economic efficiencies that result in such things as lower costs on the other. When a trade-off exists, should government officials err on the side of privacy OR on the side of economic efficiency? Do you feel that way strongly?

Notes: Seventy-two (72) percent of small employers think that if government must trade-off privacy for economic efficiency or vice-versa, government should err on the side of privacy over economic efficiency (Q#2).