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Secondary Research Methods

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following is an example of secondary data

a)

Questionnaires

b)

Interviews

c)

Statistics

d)

Observations

2.

Who prefers using statistics in research?

a)

Positivists

b)

Interpretivists

3.

What type of data is the birth rate?

a)

Hard data

b)

Soft data

4.

What type of data are the crime statistics?

a)

Hard data

b)

Soft data

5.

Who analysed suicide statistics across European countries?

a)

Weber

b)

Durkheim

c)

Marx

d)

Becker

6.

One strength of using statistics in research?

a)

Valid

b)

Verstehen

c)

Operationalisation

d)

Reliable

7.

One weakness of using statistics

a)

Time and cost

b)

Operationalisation

c)

Representative

d)

Reliable

8.

Which type of document is easily accessible?

a)

Private

b)

Personal

c)

Public

d)

Historical

9.

One possible weakness of using personal documents

a)

Valid

b)

Verstehen

c)

Artificial

d)

Depth and detail

10.

One example of a personal document that was artificial (fake)

a)

Polish letters

b)

Anne Frank's diary

c)

Hitler's diary

d)

Hey's classroom notes

11.

What type of data does the process of content analysis create?

a)

Quantitative data

b)

Qualitative data

12.

Who would prefer content analysis?

a)

Positivism

b)

Interpretivism

13.

Who would prefer content analysis?

a)

Positivism

b)

Interpretivism

14.

One strength of all secondary data

a)

Time

b)

Valid

c)

Reliable

d)

Representative

15.

One weakness of all secondary data

a)

Socially constructed

b)

Representative

c)

Reliability

d)

Objectivity

16.

Who conducted secondary research?

a)

Patrick

b)

Willis

c)

McRobbie

d)

Venkatesh