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