Types of data

• branches of research

  cognitive, educational, criminal, clinical, developmental, social, neuro, occupational.
• methods to collect data

  experiments, questionaires/surveys, interviews, observations, case studies, content analysis, pilot studies.
• primary research data 


  collected by researcher first hand
• secondary research data


  taken from secondary sources e.g. books, articles, Internet.
• quantitative data 


  (numerical data) represents how much, how long, how many etc.. there is of something
• qualitative data


  (non-numerical data) words that cannot be counted or quantified. - turned to quantitative by put in categories & count frequency
• Different types of data

  objective, subjective, ideographic, namothetic, qualitative, quantitative, primary, secondary