Finding and analysing secondary data

A Methods North West Lunchtime Session

By Methods North West

Date and time

Thursday, June 5 · 4 - 5am PDT

Location

Online

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour

A wealth of quantitative and qualitiative secondary data is available - that is, data that has alreay been collected and made available for research purposes. This can mean that data good quality data and/or large amounts of data can be collected relatively quickly and cheaply. There are of course pitfalls to relying on secondary data but this should be balanced against the benefits. This session will discuss the advanatges and pitfalls of using secondary data and introduce the data and facilties that are available via the UK Data Service.

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Methods North West

Methods North West highlights the depth and breadth of methodological expertise in the social sciences within the Universities of Central Lancashire, Keele, Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester. It promotes and facilitates methodological excellence, innovation and inter-disciplinarity - within and beyond the social sciences.

Methods North West lunchtime seminars are designed for researchers adopting social science and humanities research methods and approaches. They attract an engaged audience and provide the ideal forum to share and discuss the latest innovative inter-disciplinary research methods, techniques and methodologies. We run events throughout the year for researchers (PGR/academic or from the private, third or community sector) that provide something a little different to the standards methods training.