Tag: secondary data
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Socio-economic analysis with nighttime light series. Step 1: downloading shapefile of the study area
Context: we analyze economic changes in Colombian municipalities between 1993 and 2020. We need to download ArcGis, a geographic information system (GIS) for working with maps and geographic information maintained by the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri). It is used for creating and using maps, compiling geographic data, analyzing mapped information, sharing and discovering geographic…
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Secondary data source for well-being related indexes
I find great this OECD statistic source on well-being across countries and regions. Here is a brief description of the whole project: “There is more to life than the cold numbers of GDP and economic statistics – This Index allows you to compare well-being across countries, based on 11 topics the OECD has identified as…
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The world’s worst countries for workers
Interesting and high quality report on global rights index. An example of high quality and global secondary data source. It offers a list of countries rating from 1 to 5+ (pp. 15), where 5+ means “No guarantee of rights due to the breakdown of the rule of law” and 1 “Irregular Violations of Rights”. I…
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Example of explanatory research by mean secondary data
A referendum to limit migration from European Union countries took place on 10th February of 2014 in Switzerland. In the score of such event, Alexandre Afonso (2014) and Paul Haydon (2014) did a simple analysis of correlation between the share of migrants population per canton and the share of yes to anti-immigration initiative, based on the results…
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Example of mixed methods research
Case study : Pro-life and pro-choice groups; Spaces of conflict around a moral issue in the UK and Poland. This project focuses on conflict between groups -religious and secular- on the topic of abortion policy. Specifically, the tension between pro-life and pro-choice activism in contemporary British society. Debates around abortion may become a significant tension…
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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…