Collecting Data

Question 1

What is Primary data?

Answer 1

-Original data collected first hand by fieldwork.
-Raw data that has not been manipulated

Question 2

What are some example of Primary data?

Answer 2

-Counting and measuring
-asking questions
-sketching/photographs

Question 3

What is secondary data?

Answer 3

Information from published sources which was collected/ manipulated by someone else

Question 4

What are some examples of secondary data?

Answer 4

Textbooks and newspapers
Television reports
Maps
Planning documents
Websites
Processed census data

Question 5

What are the 2 types of primary data?

Answer 5

Quantitive (numbers and counting) and qualitative (involve subjective judgements)

Question 6

What are some different sampling methods?

Answer 6

-random
-systematic
-stratified

Question 7

What is random sampling?

Answer 7

Samples are chosen at random so that every person in a questionnaire survey has an equal chance of being selected

Question 8

What is systematic sampling?

Answer 8

Working to a system to collect data, for example, every 20 metres or paces along a road, or every 5th person.

Question 9

What is stratified sampling?

Answer 9

Deliberately introducing a bias to ensure that the data reflects the diversity of a population i.e. asking the same proportion of people from the age group that lives in a city.