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Research Methods: Types of Data
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- 1Primary Datainformation collected by sociologists themselves for their own purposes. These purposes may obtain a first hand 'picture' of a group or society, or to test a hypothesis
- 2Social Surveys (Primary Data)involves asking people questions in a written questionnaire in an interview
- 3Participant Observation (Primary Data)the sociologist joins in with the activies of the group they're studying
- 4Experiments (Primary Data)sociologists rarely use lab experiments, but they sometimes use field experiments and the comparative method
- 5Secondary Datainformation that has been collected or created by someone else for their own purposes but which the sociologist can then use
- 6Official Statistics (Secondary Data)produced by the governement on a wide range of issues e.g. crime. as well as other statistics produced by charaties, churches etc
- 7Documents (Secondary Data)such as letters, diaries, photographs, official reports, newspapers etc
- 8Quantative daterefers to information in numerical form
- 9Qualitative Datagives a 'feel' of what something is like e.g. what it feels like to get good GCSE results. Gives researchers a sense of what it feels like to be a member of a particular group
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