Unit-IV

DATA COLLECTION

By
Dr.Sampurna Panda

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 UNIT-IV SYLLABUS

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 What is Data Collection?

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 To analyze and make decisions about a certain business, sales, etc., data will
be collected.
 This collected data will help in making some conclusions about the
performance of a particular business.
 Thus, data collection is essential to analyze the performance of a business
unit, solving a problem and making assumptions about specific things when
required.

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 In Statistics, data collection is a process of gathering information from all the
relevant sources to find a solution to the research problem.
 It helps to evaluate the outcome of the problem. The data collection methods
allow a person to conclude an answer to the relevant question.
 Most of the organizations use data collection methods to make assumptions
about future probabilities and trends.
 Once the data is collected, it is necessary to undergo the data
organization process.

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 Primary Sources
 These sources are records of
events or evidence as they are
first described or actually
happened without any
interpretation or commentary.
 It is information that is shown for
the first time or original materials
on which other research is
based. Primary sources display
original thinking, report on new
discoveries, or share fresh
information.

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 Examples of primary sources:
1. Dissertation
2. scholarly journal articles (research
based)
3. some government reports
4. symposia and conference
proceedings
5. Artwork
6. Poems
7. Photographs
8. speeches, letters, memos, personal
narratives, diaries, interviews,
autobiographies, and
correspondence.

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 Secondary Sources

 These sources offer an analysis or restatement of primary sources. They

often try to describe or explain primary sources. They tend to be works
which summarize, interpret, reorganize, or otherwise provide an added
value to a primary source.

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 Examples of
Secondary Sources:
Textbooks, edited
works, books and
articles that
interpret or review
research works,
histories,
biographies, literary
criticism and
interpretation,
reviews of law and
legislation, political
analyses and
commentaries.

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 Tertiary Sources
These are sources that index, abstract, organize, compile, or digest
other sources. Some reference materials and textbooks are
considered tertiary sources when their chief purpose is to list,
summarize or simply repackage ideas or other information. Tertiary
sources are usually not credited to a particular author.

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 Examples of Tertiary Sources:
Dictionaries/encyclopedias (may also be secondary),
almanacs, fact books, Wikipedia, bibliographies (may
also be secondary), directories, guidebooks, manuals,
handbooks, and textbooks (may be secondary), indexing
and abstracting sources.

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