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Types of data
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Types of data
Primary data: collected by sociologists for their own research
- Social suverys: questionnaires and interviews
- Participant observation
- Sociologist joins in with who they're studying
- Experiments
- Labatory experiments
- Field experiments and comparative method
Secondary data: information collected by another source that sociologists can use
- Official statistics
- Produced by government, businesses, charities
- Documents
- Letters, novels, diaries
- Valid, not reliable
- Official statistics
Quantitative data: written response, focused on feelings and behaviour
Quantitative data: numerical response, looks at patterns and trends
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- A Levels Sociology (Social study) Mind Map on Types of data, created by dottydiva96 on 11/04/2014.
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