Toolkit 5

Question 1

What is secondary analysis?

Answer 1

Any re-analysis of such data

Question 2

What are the three types of secondary data?

Answer 2

• administrative records
• research data
• major government surveys

Question 3

Why use secondary data?

Answer 3

• data as context
• data as comparison
• data as basis of analysis
• understand previous research

Question 4

What is geoconvert?

Answer 4

• software to automatically allocate one set of geographies to another
• software to link data classification systems to postcodes

Question 5

What is secondary data?

Answer 5

Any data collected by another researcher