L13: Types Of Data

Question 1

What is Quantitative Data?

Answer 1

• Involves numbers, measured objectively

- Includes dependent variable in ex, closed q, structured interviews and tallies

Question 2

What is Qualitative Data?

Answer 2

• Involves words and subjective interpretation
• e.g open questions, unstructured interviews and observations
• Hard to analyse due to subjective/biased interpretation, and it is hard to categorise/collect

Question 3

What is Primary Data?

Answer 3

• Collected directly by researcher

Question 4

What is secondary data?

Answer 4

• Info collected for a purpose other than its current use. Researcher use data for a different study and apply it to their research.
• There is variation in quality and accuracy of secondary data, so it is hard to tell if it’s reliable

Question 5

What is a Meta-analysis?

Answer 5

• Process of combining results from many studies of one topic to provide an overall view
• Allows results to be generalised across larger populations
• Prone to publication bias where researcher leaves out studies with negative/non significant results