You are working on a project to transition a legacy system to a new software package. As part of your initial analysis work, you have collected survey data from users of the current legacy system. One of the questions on the survey was “If you could change one thing about the software, what would it be?”
How would you classify the data you collect in response to that question?
- Quantitative, primary source data
- Quantitative, secondary source data
- Qualitative, primary source data
- Qualitative, secondary source data
You chose: B
Correct answer: C
Quantitative data involves numerical values, whereas qualitative data is descriptive data. A person’s response to the survey question above would not typically be numeric in nature. The data is considered primary source data, since it was collected specifically for answering questions related to your current project. Secondary source data comes from data that was collected in the past for another purpose.