Types Of Data

Question 1

What are the type of data positivists prefer?

Answer 1

Prefer objective
Methodical
Statistical
Short

Question 2

What are the types for data interpretivists prefer?

Answer 2

Subjective data
Wordy

Question 3

What is Primary Data?

Answer 3

Refers to when data is collected by the researcher themselves. Research methods include experiments, surveys, questionnaires, interviews.

Question 4

What is secondary data?

Answer 4

Is the information that is collected by others. Includes like, Official Statistics, personal documents and diaries.

Question 5

What does quantitive data mean?

Answer 5

Quantitive data refers to numerical data usually comes into the form of statistics or percentages. Mostly presented in graphs, tables or pie charts.

Example- education of league tables of the percentages of the students.

Question 6

What does qualitative data mean?

Answer 6

Refers to non-numerical data such as words, images.
Researcher may use historical documents

Research methods examples: unstructured interviews, observations, diaries or biography.

Question 7

What is the term Generalisability?

Answer 7

Researchers want to generalise the data they have collected. The larger the sample it is most likely to be representative.

Question 8

What is the term representativeness?

Answer 8

Representative is what researchers ensure by access to wider group by their social characteristics and social groups such as, males females and age group. It is the overall population.

Question 9

Term Reliabilty?

Answer 9

When a research process is reliable, it can be repeated using similar sample replicating so the evidence data is gathered.