Documente Academic
Documente Profesional
Documente Cultură
• The person reviewing the secondary data • Properly citing the publication date of the
can easily become overwhelmed by the sources you used will allow subsequent
volume of secondary data available, if researchers to use your work to make
selectivity is not exercised. comparisons over time and between
countries, communities, towns, regions, etc.
• It is often difficult to determine the quality
of some of the data in question. • Proper citation allow subsequent researchers
to use your work, thus preventing
• Sources may conflict with each other. unnecessary duplication of research efforts
(Qualidata 1997)
• Because secondary data is usually not
collected for the same purpose as the
original researcher had, the goals and