Data Handling - Plan

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Data Handling

Mayfield High School

Coursework;

Plan

I am going to collect data and evidence to support (or not support) the both assumptions made by me.

To collect the data, I will have to do survey's and questionnaires so I have enough statistics to start a piece of coursework to prove the assumptions I'll be making. This is called "Primary Data".

I will not be using that, instead of that I'll be using "Secondary Data" meaning you don't have to do surveys or ask people to fill in questionnaires regarding my assumptions for this particular coursework which will help me end with a accurate, correct and reliable conclusions; so it's convenient and saves a lot of time.

Secondary data which I've been given is based on a fictional school named "Mayfield High School" but only recording junior school, the school is fictional but the data's based on or been obtained from a real school.

The disadvantages of using secondary data are:

* You could be unaware of who and how it was collected

* The data collected could be either prejudiced or incomplete

There are also advantages of using