Types of Data

Question 1

Qualitative data

Answer 1

Quality description observed but bot measured can be attitudes feelings and beliefs

Strengths-greater external validity as richer in responses

Weaknesses-difficult to analyse may be subjective to bias

Question 2

Quantitative data

Answer 2

numerical can be measured data

Strengths- easily draw correlations
-objective less open to bias

Weaknesses-less meaning so may fail to repsresent life

Question 3

primary data

Answer 3

aoriginal data collected for the study currently being done

strength-Specifically target research required

Weakness-time and money

Question 4

Secondary data

Answer 4

Data collected by someone else previously

Strength-early access, inexpensive

weakness-data might outdated or incomplete, might motivate match their objective

Question 5

Meta analysis

Answer 5

Secondary data
Where a researcher looks at the findings from a number of different studied and procedures a statistic to represent overall effect