Video Transcript
Which of the following statements
is not true?
And we’re given five statements
which we shall look at in turn. Statement (A) says, “Primary data
is data collected by the researcher themselves.” Well, this is essentially the
definition of primary data. It’s new data that’s collected by
the researcher themselves or by somebody collecting it on their behalf. Therefore, statement (A) is a true
statement. The statement in option (B) is “Web
pages are a source of secondary data.” We can remember that secondary data
is something which is collected and organized by others, and so websites or web
pages can be a good source of secondary data. This is a true statement.
Statement (C) says, “Secondary data
is data collected by the researcher themselves.” As we saw in statement (A), it’s
primary data when the data is collected by the researcher themselves. Therefore, this statement is
false. Let’s have a look at the remaining
two statements. Statement (D) says, “Questionnaires
are a source of primary data,” and statement (E) says, “Focus groups are a source of
primary data.” Both questionnaires and focus
groups are data collection methods which give new information which can be collected
and organized by the researcher themselves. Since both of these are primary
data sources, then both statement (D) and (E) are true. Therefore, the statement that is
not true is statement (C): secondary data is data collected by the researcher
themselves.
