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Data Collection Methods and Tools

The document outlines data collection methods and tools, emphasizing the importance of gathering information to address research problems and validate findings. It distinguishes between qualitative and quantitative data, as well as primary and secondary data, and describes various methods for collecting primary data, including interviews and questionnaires. Additionally, it highlights the data analysis process and tools such as tables and graphs for analyzing collected data.

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Data Collection Methods and Tools

The document outlines data collection methods and tools, emphasizing the importance of gathering information to address research problems and validate findings. It distinguishes between qualitative and quantitative data, as well as primary and secondary data, and describes various methods for collecting primary data, including interviews and questionnaires. Additionally, it highlights the data analysis process and tools such as tables and graphs for analyzing collected data.

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DATA COLLECTION METHODS AND TOOLS

Data collection is a process of collecting information from all the relevant sources to find answers to
the research problem, test the hypothesis and evaluate the outcomes.

Data is any information that has been collected, observed, generated or created to validate
original research findings.

Variable is any property, a characteristic, a number, or a quantity that increases or


decreases over time or can take on different values (as opposed to constants, such
as n, that do not vary) in different situations.

Qualitative Data: They represent some characteristics or attributes. They depict descriptions that may
be observed but cannot be computed or calculated. For example, data on attributes such
as intelligence, honesty, wisdom, cleanliness, and creativity

Quantitative Data: These can be measured and not simply observed. They can be numerically
represented and calculations can be performed on them.

Primary data These are the data that are collected for the first time by an investigator for a specific
purpose. Primary data are ‘pure’ in the sense that no statistical operations have been performed on
them and they are original

Secondary data They are the data that are sourced from someplace that has originally collected it. This
means that this kind of data has already been collected by some researchers or investigators in the past
and is available either in published or unpublished form

Discrete data is one which can take into consideration only certain specific values instead of a range of
values. For instance, data which is on the blood group of a specific population or on their genders is
known as discrete data. Also, bar charts are a common way to represent this data.

Methods of collecting Primary data

1. interviews

2. observation

3. Experiments

4. Questionnaire
Interview procedure

1. Prepares questions
2. Go through the questions to filter and correct
3. Call the respondents beforehand to confirm their availability and set time and place
4. Go to site, and meet your respondents and tell them what will be required of them during the
exercise. Give them confidentiality assurance, etc
5. Take station, and turn on the recording machine and start off the interview exercise
6. Keep asking for clarifications for uncertain questions, and know where to stop in 'pushing' for
answers throughout the interview. Finish the interview in good time as you promised and
thank the respondents
7. Move from station and go start data analysis

Data analysis is the systematic and rigorous process of filtering out the data that has been
collected, deducing existing relationships, comparing and contrasting variables, in order to
notice/find patterns and therefore draw accurate conclusions from the data.

DATA ANALYSIS METHODS

1. Tables- tools; MS EXCEL, MS Words

2. Graphs/charts; - Tool; MS Excel

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