Use of secondary data analyses in research: Pros and Cons
<p>What are secondary data? Secondary data refer to data that are collected by someone other than the user or are used for an additional purpose than the original one. A wide range of sources can be used as secondary data: censuses, information collected by government departments, organizati...
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Journal of Addiction Medicine and Therapeutic Science - Peertechz Publications,
2020-07-08.
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Summary: | <p>What are secondary data? Secondary data refer to data that are collected by someone other than the user or are used for an additional purpose than the original one. A wide range of sources can be used as secondary data: censuses, information collected by government departments, organizational records and data that were originally collected for other research purposes [1-3]. Yee and Niemeier [4] discuss the benefits of longitudinal data as compared to repeated cross-sectional information. </p> |
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DOI: | 10.17352/2455-3484.000039 |