DATA COLLECTION SERVICES
What comes to your mind when you read or hear the word DATA COLLECTION?
What comes to your mind may include;
- Primary data
- Secondary data
- Gathering information
- Research instruments
DEFINITION: This step involves conducting the study as per the designed procedure (manipulating the experimental variables in the case of an experimental method), administering instruments for measuring variables and/ or gathering information through observation. It also involves tabulating the data thus collected for the purpose of analysis (Robindos Research Consultancy, 2020).
- At Robindos Research Consultancy we assist our clients to collect data using various methods.
During data collection, the researcher now begins to gather data relating to the research problem.
- The means of data acquisition will often change based on the type of the research problem.
- This might entail only data gathering, but it could also require the creation of new measurement instruments.
Take a step back – if we’re starting from scratch, how do we collect / find data?
- Secondary data
- Primary data
- Secondary data – data someone else has collected
This is what you were looking for in your assignment.
- Primary data – data you collect for example using:
- Surveys
- Focus groups
- Questionnaires
- Personal interviews
- Experiments and observational study
