Jackson is collecting data on the impact of pollution in his neighborhood for his school report. Match the different research instruments that he may use for data collection to their respective data sources.
A primary data source is the original first hand account of the authors/researchers of a study. Surveys, interviews, questionnaires are all primary data collection tools as they directly access the subjects/volunteers in a study. The data directly comes from their first hand accounts. Other primary data sources are:
case reports
clinical reports
journal articles
dissertations
autobiographies
poetry
eyewitness acounts
records
Secondary Data Sources:
A secondary data source describes, summarizes, reports or analyses primary data. Secondary data is used to obtain a general overview of the topic of interest or to review/analyse the conclusions drawn in primary data. Secondary data sources include:
