documents - secondary data

Question 1

give debrief of secondary data

Answer 1

• can be historic or contemporary
• public (gov reports / public websites
• private (diaries/ letters)

Question 2

1 pract, ethical, theoretical advantage of field experiments

Answer 2

(P) - easily accessible
(E) - no harm as consent is already given
(T) - quantitative data = generalisation and trends

Question 3

1 pract, ethical, theoretical disadvantage of field experiments

Answer 3

(p) - time consuming = reading through documents
(E) - risk of emotional harm of from peoples info being used
(T) - reduced validity = not everything is reported = info changes over time

Question 4

1 pratcial and theoretical advantage of official statistics

Answer 4

(P) - saves time and money

(T) - highly reliable as it follows set rpocedure e.g. census

Question 5

1 pratcial and theoretical disadvantage of official statistics

Answer 5

(P) - topics may be limited = validity = reliability

(T) - not everything is reported e.g. crimes/ pupil misbehaviour