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Description: This project publishes the online appendix and the data to reproduce the results of a paper with the same title as this project that is published in the Journal of European Public Policy. The files in this project contain the online appendix, the dataset and the do-file to reproduce the results. Here is the summary of the paper: The digitalization of public policy requires that the State uses citizens’ personal data. Although researchers agree that data privacy is important, we know little about the conditions under which citizens approve of their personal data being used in different policy domains. This study relies on data from original surveys conducted in Switzerland to demonstrate that citizens’ willingness to share their data with the State is low and varies across policy domains. Support for sharing is significantly higher when the data are used to prevent benefit fraud in social assistance or to improve health research than when they are used to fight tax evasion or to prevent crime and terrorism. Nevertheless, we also argue that the more citizens trust government and the more important they consider a policy issue to be, the more likely they are to share their data with the State officials in charge of the relevant policy. Previous use of apps also increases citizens' agreement for the policy-related use of their personal data.