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environmental assessment and management1 using a case study area of your choice explain and demonstrate different understandings of nature
advertising agencies advertising agencies have proved to be very useful sources o f marketing research recently a large number of agencies have come
international organizations international organizations such as the international monetary fund the world bank the united nations
commercial datacommercial data there are several institutions and companies which purchase and sell marketing information and
private sourcestrade associations trade associations may be an excellent source of data pertaining to an industry the trade association of one
registration data registration data are the outcome of legal requirements of the submission of final accounts and reports to the registrar of
census and registration datacensus and registration data have become very comprehensive census but it now extends to many areasacensus of population
external secondary data the second form of secondary data is external sources which are generally published and are available in different form and
advantages of secondary data1 economy such data are cheaper the amount of money spent in acquiring secondary data is generally a great deal less than
disadvantages of secondary datait is however difficulty to find secondary data that exactly fits into the needs of some specific research
cautions in collection of secondary datasecondary data means data that are already available i e they refer to the data which have already been
data classified by their naturethe nature of data may be classified according to various categories facts knowledge opinion intention motivation and
data classified according to functiondata classified according to function data are also classified according to their functions while planning data
characteristic - interview methodsinterviewing as a method of data collection has certain characteristics they are1 the participants the
interview methodsinterviewing is one is the prominent method of data collection it may be defined as a two way systematic conversation between an
demerits of survey methods1 the first drawback of survey method is the money needed for conducting the surveys in most cases
merits of survey methodssurvey methods has followings merits in comparison to other methods 1 a survey permits the researcher to come in direct
four method of survey1 nature of the population the population maybe widely scattered then mail surveys are more appropriate and economic if the
survey methodin research surveys are most commonly used and most abused means of collecting primary data these methods are mostly used as these are
direct indirect and human mechanical observationdirect indirect observation in direct observation the behaviour of a person is observed on the other
observation under natural setting laboratory settingobservation under natural setting laboratory setting observations in field studies are in
methods of observation there many methods of observation any one of them can be used by the researcher these are as 1 structured or unstructured
criteria for the evaluation of observational studiesevaluation of observational method performed by human beings should be done in terms of
characteristics of the observed in getting information from the investigated people their characteristics play an important role the status of the
skills and characteristics of the investigators all social scientists do not feel comfortable in observing a situation for a long time they feel