Types of Data

Types of Data

1. Primary data

   • collects themselves. 'FIRST HAND PICTURE'
   • Expensive and time consuming
   • Sociologists gather the exact info they need to test their hypotheses
   • Social surveys
   • Participant observation
   • experiments

2. Secondary Data

   • info collected by other people that sociologists can use
   • those who produced the info may have been interested in different questions
   • Quick and cheap
   • Official statistics
   • documents

3. Quantitative data

   • Info in number form

4. Qualitative data

   • Gives the feel of what something is like