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Field work - Coggle Diagram
Field work
Types of data
Primary
Data you collect yourself from those sources
Data from first-hand sources
Examples
Interview
Focus groups
Observations (e.g. traffic count)
Secondary
Data that other people collected before
Using this data for your research
Examples
News articles
Books
National statistics (e.g. census)
Quantitative
Has a quantitiy
The data has numbers
Examples
Traffic count
Rainfall
Height
Types
Discrete: Data that must be shown in integers
Continuous: Data that can be shown in decimals
Qualitative
Has a quality or characteristic
The data cannot be represented using numbers, rather words
Examples
Photographs
Videos
Colours