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A researcher in Jaipur wants data on the monthly household expenditure of families in a city. She uses the Census of India's published tables on household expenditure instead of surveying families herself. For her, these data are:

The data are secondary data. They were originally collected by another agency, the Census, and the researcher only uses them. Data are primary only for the person or body that collects them first-hand, whoever later publishes or uses them.

  1. APrimary data, because they relate to households
  2. BSecondary data, because they were collected earlier by another agencyCorrect
  3. CPrimary data, because they are published by the government
  4. DQualitative data, because they relate to families

Explanation

Data collected by someone else and already available are secondary data to the person who uses them. The researcher did not collect the figures herself, so they are secondary. Government publication does not make data primary for the user.

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