Ilevbare (2008)

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Ilevbare (2008)
Title:	Psychosocial factors influencing attitudes towards internet piracy among Nigerian university students
Author(s):	Ilevbare, F. M.
Year:	2008
Citation:	ILEVBARE, F. M. 2008. Psychosocial factors influencing attitudes towards internet piracy among Nigerian university students. IFE Psychologia: An International Journal, 16, 120-129.
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About the Data
Data Description:	Interviews with 250 participants. A total of two hundred and fifty participants were drawn through accidental sampling technique for this study. Their age ranged between 19-48 years. In all, one hundred and forty (140) representing 56%) of the total sample size were male with the remaining one hundred and ten (110) 44% were females. Furthermore, one hundred and seventy (170) representing 68% of the participants were from the Yoruba ethnic groups, twenty (20) repressing 8% were Igbos, ten (10) representing 4% of the total sample size were Hausas, while the remaining fifty (50) representing 20% of the total sample size were from other minority ethnic groups in Nigeria. One hundred and forty one (141) representing 56.4%) had bachelor’s degree as their highest level of education, twenty-six (26) reprising 10.4%) had NCE/OND as their highest level of educational qualification, fifty six (56) representing 22.4% of the participants had master’ as their highest level of education, while the remaining twenty eight (28) representing 10.8% did not indicate their highest level of educational qualification.
Data Type:	Primary data
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Data Collection Methods:	Survey Research (quantitative; e.g. sales/income reporting) Quantitative data/text mining Snowball sampling Survey Research (qualitative; e.g. consumer preferences) Case Study Semi-Structured Interview Qualitative content/text mining
Data Analysis Methods:	Quantitative content analysis (e.g. text or data mining) Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) Textual Content Analysis
Industry(ies):	Software publishing (including video games)
Country(ies):	Nigeria
Cross Country Study?:	No
Comparative Study?:	No
Literature review?:	No
Government or policy study?:	No
Time Period(s) of Collection:	2008
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Coverage of Study

Coverage of Fundamental Issues

Issue	Included within Study
Relationship between protection (subject matter/term/scope) and supply/economic development/growth/welfare
Relationship between creative process and protection - what motivates creators (e.g. attribution; control; remuneration; time allocation)?
Harmony of interest assumption between authors and publishers (creators and producers/investors)
Effects of protection on industry structure (e.g. oligopolies; competition; economics of superstars; business models; technology adoption)
Understanding consumption/use (e.g. determinants of unlawful behaviour; user-generated content; social media)

Coverage of Evidence Based Policies

Issue	Included within Study
Nature and Scope of exclusive rights (hyperlinking/browsing; reproduction right)
Exceptions (distinguish innovation and public policy purposes; open-ended/closed list; commercial/non-commercial distinction)
Mass digitisation/orphan works (non-use; extended collective licensing)
Licensing and Business models (collecting societies; meta data; exchanges/hubs; windowing; crossborder availability)
Fair remuneration (levies; copyright contracts)
Enforcement (quantifying infringement; criminal sanctions; intermediary liability; graduated response; litigation and court data; commercial/non-commercial distinction; education and awareness)