Category: Secondary data
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Outstanding website with 300.000 economic indicators for 196 countries
I found something very interesting when looking for secondary dat on Poland GDP growth rate. It is an outstanding tool to compare economic indicators by countries. They offer, among other things, the exportation of data into excel as well as represent it in maps. Further details here
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Transnational secondary data on mobility and transport in Europe
The European Commission has published for the first time a scoreboard on transport infrastructure ranking the EU’s 28 member states. Secondary data on a wide number of indicators can be consulted. The Commission used data from Eurostat, the European Environment Agency, the World Bank and the OECD to come up with the scores. The online tool can be…
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Secondary Data Collection
(Updated 16 March 2026) Secondary data remains one of the most important resources in social research, business studies, public policy, and the digital humanities. Its traditional strengths—saving time, reducing costs, and enabling large-scale analysis—still hold. However, the research environment has changed considerably. Today, digitized archives, open-data portals, research repositories, and AI-assisted tools have made…
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What is secondary data and where is located?
Secondary data is usually defined in opposition to primary data. The latter is directly obtained from first-hand sources by mean of questionnaire, observation, focus group or in-depth interviews, while the former refers to data collected by someone other than the user. In other words, data that has already been collected for some other purpose. Yet, such data may…