Primary Data in Sociological Research Paper
Primary Data in Sociological Research Paper
There are two types of basic information that sociologists collect. The first is primary data, which involves information collected personally by a sociologist, who, therefore, knows exactly how the data was collected, by whom and for what purpose (you don’t, for example, have to trust other people if they collected their data accurately). As we will see, sociologists use a range of research methods (such as questionnaires, interviews and observational studies) as sources of primary data. Sources of primary data include such things as: […]