Secondary data

Question 1

Secondary Data

Answer 1

Secondary data analysis is the use of data that was collected by someone else for some other purpose. e.g. official statistics, diaries.

Question 2

Secondary data is often used:

Answer 2

To understand the background or context of the research
To increase the amount, breadth and depth of evidence available
To get access to evidence gathered by researchers with relevant expertise

Question 3

Phillips and Bowling

Answer 3

To provide evidence to generalise to the wider population
When Phillips and Bowling researched weather the differences in the criminality of African-Caribbean and Asian people could be accounted for by police racism
they used Home Office research which used CCTV cameras in five urban areas and found that Asians were less likely to be stopped than other groups.

Question 4

Skeggs

Answer 4

To ensure that the research is valid - Checking the relativity of the women's class to see the true extent class impacts resepectability
Skeggs wanted to research their lives and how women create a sense of self, and the part social class and a search for respectability plays in female working class identity. To support her observations she used information on the national and local economy.

Question 5

Nicola Charles

Answer 5

Administrated a a questionnaire to a sample of 1,000 households in Swansea and was based on an original survey from 1962 and provided quantitative data. Aimed to understand the effects of social change on intimate and kin relationships and to look at the importance of kinship in providing social support and a sense of identity. This study compared its findings with those from an original 1962 survey by Rosser and Harris.