Secondary data
What Secondary data means in Psychology GCSE, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
Definitions of Secondary data
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Reference: AQA
Data that already exists because someone else gathered it for their own purpose, for example published exam results, hospital records or a previous study's findings that you re-analyse.
Pre-existing information collected by someone else for a different purpose, such as government statistics or previous journal articles.
Topics that use Secondary data
- Data handling (AQA GCSE)
- Data analysis (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Measures of central tendency
- Primary data
- Qualitative data
- Quantitative data
- Arithmetic mean and significant figures
- Calculating from raw scores
- Choosing appropriate displays
- Correlational relationships
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