Primary + secondary data

Question 1

What is primary data?

Answer 1

Production ;of primary data can give info thats unique to aim of research

May be gathered from clinical intervuews with mentally ill patients regarding symptoms + experiences

Original data

Question 2

What are some strengths + weaknesses of primary data?

Answer 2

• More expensive to conduct + collect research data
• More time consuming
• More accurate + directly focused on behaviour wanting to be studied

Question 3

What is secondary data?

Answer 3

Secondary data has already been gathered by someone else + are used by someone else for further research

May be data from other researchers thats re-used for a different purpose, e.g. statistics in a newspaper

Question 4

What are some strengths + weaknesses of secondary data?

Answer 4

• Less expensive info available in public domain/readily accessible
• Not as time consuming
• Access data not otherwise available to collect but this may be less valid/reliable

Question 5

What are some examples of primary data?

Answer 5

Interviews, diary entries, case studies, questionnaires, observations, experiments

Question 6

What are some examples of secondary data?

Answer 6

Journal articles, medical data, books, websites