Types Of Data

Question 1

What type of research methods are primary data?

Answer 1

Questionnaires
Interviews
Experiments
Observations

Question 2

What research methods are secondary data?

Answer 2

Official statistics
Personal and historical documents
Mass media

Question 3

What is primary data?

Answer 3

Data collected by the sociologist

Question 4

What is secondary data?

Answer 4

Data that’s the sociologist uses but did not collect

Question 5

What are strengths of primary research?

Answer 5

Sociologists have a high level of control

Can research groups which have previously been ignored

Question 6

What are limitations of primary data?

Answer 6

Expensive
Time consuming
There are barriers which prevent the sociologist from doing research themselves

Question 7

What are strengths of secondary data?

Answer 7

Quick
Cheap
Representative
Useful for seeing comparisons over time

Question 8

What are limitations or secondary data?

Answer 8

Have a hidden agenda so it is not reliable or valid
Might not fit the sociologists exact purpose
Operationalised - one sociologist may interpret a key term differently to another

Question 9

What is a close ended question?

Answer 9

Limited to a short answer

Can pick an answer from a pre-selected list of responses

Question 10

What is an open ended question?

Answer 10

Respondent answers question in their own words and require some explanation