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Detailed explanation-1: -Sociologists use secondary sources for a variety of reasons, as we will discuss in more detail in a moment, and the sources of such data are many and varied. and unofficial-see below) to the more qualitative such as personal documents and diaries, government and business reports and the mass media).

Detailed explanation-2: -Secondary data is information that someone else has collected e.g. the work of other psychologists that has been published in journals or government statistics. They are sometimes used by other researchers, as they are often cheaper and more convenient than gathering one’s own primary data.

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.