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What is the difference between primary and secondary data?

Primary data are data that you collect yourself; secondary data are data that others collect.
Primary data are data that other people collect; secondary data are data you collect yourself.
* Primary data are data that cannot be used for research; secondary data are data you can use for research.
O Primary data are data that you can use for research; secondary data are data that cannot be used for research.

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Primary data refers to the first hand data gathered by the researcher himself. Secondary data means data collected by someone else earlier. Surveys, observations, experiments, questionnaire, personal interview, etc. Government publications, websites, books, journal articles, internal records etc.

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