Examine the reasons why sociologists choose to use secondary sources when conducting research.

... Examine the reasons why sociologists choose to use secondary sources when conducting research. Secondary sources of information come in many forms. These can range from official statistics produced by the government on areas such as schools and crime and data published on the internet or in books by other sociologists who did their own research. Many sociologists as well as doing their own research use secondary data to back up what they may have found or also sometimes they use it so they don't have to have the hassle of doing a long winded study when they can just use other findings instead and publish their facts and figures more quickly. However using secondary data can have its limitations and by using it you may come across errors and anomalies which a sociologist may not come across if they had done collected their own primary data. Firstly sociologists are often more

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