Secondary sources

Question 1

Official statistics

Answer 1

Are numerical information collected and used by the government and its agencies.
Include data on births, deaths, marriages/civil partnerships, unemployment, educational attainment, and crime.

Question 2

Documents

Answer 2

source material for research, including newspapers, diaries, maps, photographs, and computer files.

Question 3

PET issues of official statistics:

Answer 3

p = easy to access and published often, range of topics, education ect.
e = data protection acts
t = high reliability, highly representative, not high in validity