Research Methods- Secondary Data

Question 1

What kind of statistics are objective?

Answer 1

Hard statistics such as statistics on births and marriages

Question 2

What kind of statistics are subjective?

Answer 2

Soft statistics such as statistics on crime, poverty and unemployment

Question 3

What is social trends?

Answer 3

A collection of government surveys published annually until 2012

Question 4

What is the UK census?

Answer 4

A survey of every household every 10 years that is a legal requirement to fill out

Question 5

What are non-official statistics?

Answer 5

Statistics collected by organisations other than the government

Question 6

What is a document?

Answer 6

Written text that can be personal or official

Question 7

What forms can documents be in?

Answer 7

Expressive or formal

Question 8

What is content analysis?

Answer 8

A method of systematically analysing a communication to understand its meanings

Question 9

What are the problems with documents?

Answer 9

Can be difficult to understand, might be fakes, might contain lies

Question 10

How do sociologists compare different secondary documents?

Answer 10

Look for similarities and differences between different times, cultures and groups