Types of data 1

View mindmap

Types of Data
- Secondary Data
  - data already exists
  - Collected for another reason
  - E.g Social trends, crime statistics, official statistics
  - Official Statistics-Government
  - Documents- Private/Public
- Primary Data
  - Collects themseles
  - first hand
  - Quantitative or Qualitative
  - E.g interview victims of crime,surveys
  - e.g. Social surveys-Questionnaires ,interviews
    - Observation- non/participant
    - Experiments- Laboratory/Field/Thought
- Quantitative data
  - Numbers
  - large scale
Qualitative data
- Types of Data
  - Secondary Data
    - data already exists
    - Collected for another reason
    - E.g Social trends, crime statistics, official statistics
    - Official Statistics-Government
    - Documents- Private/Public
  - Primary Data
    - Collects themseles
    - first hand
    - Quantitative or Qualitative
    - E.g interview victims of crime,surveys
    - e.g. Social surveys-Questionnaires ,interviews
      - Observation- non/participant
      - Experiments- Laboratory/Field/Thought
  - Quantitative data
    - Numbers
    - large scale
- not numbers
- research= smaller scale
- provide richer and in-depth picture
someone else shoe
- Qualitative data
  - not numbers
  - research= smaller scale
  - provide richer and in-depth picture
useful for measuring relationships between factors

Similar Sociology resources:

See all Sociology resources »

See all Sociological research methods resources »

Comments