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- 1. Data that is collected can be primary or secondary. Primary data is original data that researchers collect for a specific purpose. Secondary data analysis involves an individual using the information that someone else gathered for his or her own purposes. Secondary data is data that is not collected directly by the researcher themselves but is relayed to them by an outside source. Secondary data and resources can be found at the local, state, regional, federal, and international levels. Secondary data is very useful because it can be gathered with little additional effort or expense from the researchers, and there is a wealth of it readily available. Secondary data is the data that has already been collected through primary sources and made readily available for researchers to use for their own research. It is a type of data that has already been collected in the past. A researcher may have collected the data for a particular project, then made it available to be used by another researcher. The data may also have been collected for general use with no specific research purpose like in the case of the national census. Examples include government census reports, other
- 2. governmental databases, and administrative data. Sources of Secondary Data Sources of secondary data includes books, personal sources, journal, newspaper, website, government record etc. Secondary data are known to be readily available compared to that of primary data. It requires very little research and need for manpower to use these sources. With the advent of electronic media and the internet, secondary data sources have become more easily accessible.