FRS - Managing Research Data

What is the main purpose of a literature review in research?

• To collect data

• To summarize research findings related to the topic

• To conduct interviews

• To perform experiments

A good review of literature should:

• Only include books

• Be brief and general

• Show gaps in existing research

• Avoid scholarly articles

Which of the following is a secondary source of data?

• Interview transcripts

• Researcher’s own survey

• Government statistics

• Observations

Which of the following is a primary source of data?

• A published journal article

• A news report

• A census document

• A researcher’s own survey data

Which one is NOT a characteristic of secondary data?

• Already collected by someone else

• Can be historical

• Always relevant to your specific study

• May be publicly available

Which of the following is primary data?

• Data from a textbook

• Data collected through interviews

• Information from Research Gate

• Census records

What is data cleaning?

• Removing all useful data

• Organizing raw data into diagrams

• Identifying and correcting errors in collected data

• Changing data to fit a hypothesis

The process of editing data involves:

• Deleting all inconsistencies

• Ensuring data is accurate and complete

• Altering results to match the hypothesis

• Ignoring outliers

Why is editing of data important?

• To reduce sample size

• To prepare for conducting interviews

• To ensure quality and consistency

• To add bias

Which of the following is a reason to clean data?

• To make it more confusing

• To enhance analysis accuracy

• To reduce workload

• To avoid literature review