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Question
What secondary data?
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Solution
The word data means information statistical data and of two types
(i) Primary data, (ii) Secondary data
Secondary data: data which are not originally collected rather obtained from published or unpublished sources are known as secondary data.
Secondary data are collected by an individual or an institution for some purpose and are used by someone else in another context
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