types of data

• what is data?

  data is in the information that is analysed as part of a piece of research.
• what is primary data?

  primary data is data that the researcher collects themselves
• what is secondary data ?

  secondary data is existing data that has been collected by a different researcher,for a different purpose.
• what is quantitative data

  quantitative data is data that is in statistical form presented as number,diagrams or statistics.
• what is qualitative data ?

  qualitative data is data that can come in a variety of different forms,but it won't be statistical,most likely in long sentences.