types of data

Question 1

How many types of data are there?

Answer 1

two

Question 2

What are the types of data?

Answer 2

Quantitative and qualitative

Question 3

What is quantitative data?

Answer 3

Data that is represented in numerical form

Question 4

How is quantitative data collected?

Answer 4

Using experiments, correlations, structured observations, questionnaires and interviews when closed questions are used

Question 5

What are the advantages of quantitative data?

Answer 5

• most scientific as it’s more objective
• easier to analyse/summarise and can be easily represented visually in graphs
• less open to interpretation so more reliable

Question 6

What are the disadvantages of quantitative data?

Answer 6

• does not offer an in depth view so is low in validity
• limited in scope only tells us how often not why

Question 7

What is qualitative data?

Answer 7

Data that is non-numerical

Question 8

How is qualitative data collected?

Answer 8

Using unstructured observations, unstructured interviews, questionnaires and interviews when open questions are used

Question 9

What are the advantages of qualitative data?

Answer 9

• offers researchers an in depth picture so is high in validity
• tells us why behaviours occur

Question 10

What are the disadvantages of qualitative data?

Answer 10

• less scientific as it is subjective
• harder to analyse as it cant be represented visually
• can be interpreted differently by different researchers so is low in reliability