Question

Eavesdrop Communications just finished a telephone survey of several of their current customers. They plan to conduct in-depth personal interviews with about twenty additional customers. Both the telephone survey and the interviews are sources of primary data for Eavesdrop.

A. True
B. False

Answer 1

A. True

Step-by-step explanation:

Primary data are data obtained from the source. They are data collected from where they initially came from. Researchers, reporters often make use of primary data for project purposes.

Examples of primary data are telephone survey, experiments and interview etc.

Before identifying type of data to be used, population target and purpose of the research must be known. The type of data to be choosen must be directed to suit the purpose of a particular research project.