Secondary research (also known as desk research) involves the summary, collation and/or synthesis of existing research rather than primary research, where data is collected from, for example, research subjects or experiments. Care should be taken to distinguish secondary research from primary research that uses raw secondary data sources. The key ...
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Research that uses data that has been derived from a primary research study and may include a systematic review of primary research.
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Also called Desk Research. The collating and analysis of existing data which has already been collected for another purpose often by an outside source
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data which already exist in some form, having been collected for a different purpose, perhaps even by a different organisation, and which might be useful in solving a current problem.
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