Official documents e.g government reports are secondary data. Primary data is that which you collect yourself. When you do your field work, obtain data and analyse it yourself - that is primary data. Secomdary data is data which someone puts together. You can manipulate them in other words you can do further analysis based on them.
Thank you for the answer. How about official transcription from United Nations? It is verbatim.
PRIMARY DATA: The data you collected by you in your research. @Oliver is correct.
SECONDARY DATA: The data is produced by some one else for a particular purpose. you use that data (prior data) for your own purpose. You purpose may not be 100% match with the original purpose for which the data was collected; for this reason, secondary data has limitation.
UN TRANSCRIPTS: The document is primary to that organization. For outsider, the document is a secondary source---it does not matter if it is verbatim or redacted. It is a secondary source. exception: UN Conventions ratified by member nations are primary source to all signatories.
LEGISLATION: If the document is a legislation, this is primary source, i.e. constitution, law, etc. Why? because it is created by a single body (legislature over the jurisdiction over which it rules) for general purpose use.
PRIVATE CONTRACTS OR AGREEMENT: This stands in a lesser position. For non-parties, they are secondary. For example, a agreement between two airline companies. For these companies, the agreement is a primary source document. For a researcher using some part of the agreement for research purpose, the document is a secondary source.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Rights_of_the_Child
I think that documents control by P& C rule and regulation and the researcher not allow to publish the results of the research.
This is certainly secondary data, since it was collected by someone else. Primary data is when yourself collect the data, all other data is secondary, regardless of the source or how you use it.
Hi Gustavo, there are certain documents that are not analyse. It just documented. As mentioned by Paul.
Thank you Dato...the doc that I am referring is not P & C. Available for stakeholders to read & analyse.
What makes a set of data primary is not the reliability of source of the information but involvement of the researcher in the collection (sometimes through direct observation), organization, presentation, analysis and interpretation of the data. Otherwise, it is secondary.
If you produce the data is primary, if someone else does it is secondary, that's all.
From https://communitymedicine4asses.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/types-of-data-primary-and-secondary-data/
"There are many ways of classifying data.
A common classification is based upon who collected the data.
Primary data: Data collected by the investigator himself/ herself for a specific purpose.
Examples: Data collected by a student for his/her thesis or research project.
(In movies) The hero is directly told by the heroine that he is her “ideal man”.
Secondary data: Data collected by someone else for some other purpose (but being utilized by the investigator for another purpose).
Examples: Census data being used to analyze the impact of education on career choice and earning.
(In movies) The hero reads a fictional account of the heroine’s “ideal man” (written for a course in English composition) that seems to describe him accurately. He seeks confirmation from his friends, concluding that he is her “ideal man”. (He never asks her directly, but assumes the “facts” are correct)."
On the basis of this information and the knowledge about the documents that you have, you can make the conclusion.
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