Secondary Research
Research that gathers and interprets existing data from reports, databases, articles, and other published sources.
It comes first because reading data someone else paid to collect is far cheaper than collecting your own.
Often confused with
- Primary Research
- Primary research is generated for this specific question; secondary research is reinterpreted from existing publications.
Taught in
See also
2.3.B.1 · 2.3.B.2 · 2.3.B.3