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What is data that Is not directly collected or observed by the sciencetist called

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Secondary data is not directly collected or observed by the scientist.

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This data is called "secondary data".
An example for a usage of a secondary data is when a researcher takes up a data collected by someone else, for exam ple a large survey, and analyses this data to receive new insights from it - this is a fairly common practice. Often for example official government data is used by scientists
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