Secondary data means that are already available that is they refer to the data, which have already been collected and analyzed by someone else. When the researcher utilizes secondary data, then he has to look into various sources from where he can obtain them. In this case he is certainly not confronted with the problems that are usually associated with the collection of original data. Secondary data may be either published or unpublished data usually published data are available in:
Various publications of the central, state and local government
Various publications of foreign government or of international bodies and their subsidiary organization.
Technical and trade journals
Books magazines and newspapers
Reports publication of various associations connected with business and industry, banks, stocks exchanges etc
Reports prepared by various scholars’ universities economists etc in different field
Public records and statistics, historical documents and other sources of publish information. The sources of unpublished data are many; they may be found in diaries, letters unpublished biographies and autobiographies and also may be available with scholar’s research workers. Trade organization, labor bureaus and other public/private organizations
Researcher must be careful in using data .he must make a minute because it is just possible that the secondary data may be unsuitable or maybe be inadequate in the context of a problem which the researcher wants to study.
It is observed that it is never safe to take publishes statistics at their face value without knowing their meaning and limitation.
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