BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
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Interview and observation
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Questionnaires and survey
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Primary sources and secondary sources
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Books and journal
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Examples of primary sources: Autobiographies and memoirs. Diaries, personal letters, and correspondence. Interviews, surveys, and fieldwork.
Detailed explanation-3: -Secondary data refers to data that is collected by someone other than the primary user. Common sources of secondary data for social science include censuses, information collected by government departments, organizational records and data that was originally collected for other research purposes.