Secondary analysis and official statistics
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What are advantages of secondary analysis?
- Cost and time
- high quality data
- opportunity for longitdudinal analysis
- opportunity for cross-cultural analysis
- more time for analysis instead of gathering data
- reanalysis may offer new interprations
What are limitations of secondary analysis
- Lack of familiarity
- complexity of the data
- no control over data quality
- absence of key variables
What are issues of reliability?
- definitions, categoreis and allocated resources change over time
- can reflect priorities of agencies
- Higher grades + faster learning
- Never study anything twice
- 100% sure, 100% understanding
What are issues of validity?
- ecological fallacy
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