Deck 6: Secondary Data

Question 1

A researcher decides to download microdata from the General Social Survey, rather than conduct his own survey, in order to do a statistical analysis of attitudes toward work among US adults .This an example of

A)Primary data
B)Secondary data
C)Qualitative data
D)All of the above

Answer 1

B

Question 2

A study compiled tax returns filed with the Internal Revenue Service by public corporations from a single year .What type of data is this?

A)Panel
B)Cross sectional
C)Pooled cross sectional
D)Multilevel

Answer 2

B

Question 3

_______ refers to data at its most basic level of observation.

A)Microdata
B)Segmented-data
C)Linear-data
D)Simple-data

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which type of data is also called prospective cohort data?

A)Panel
B)Longitudinal
C)Aggregate time series
D)Cross sectional

Question 5

Simply put, ____ is data about datA.

A)Metadata
B)Signaldata
C)Intradata
D)None of the above

Question 6

Database structures, as tends to be the case in many administrative agencies, are composed of various tables of information that are linked and work together .This is referred to as:

A)Integration databases
B)Consistency databases
C)Relational databases
D)Cross-functional databases

Question 7

A researcher has a dataset of 20,000 individuals surveyed by telephone and seeks to examine what demographic characteristics are associated with smoking .What type of data is this?

A)Aggregate
B)Ecological
C)Hierarchical
D)Microdata

Question 8

In order to understand how data were collected, coded, and weighted, researchers use what is known as a:

A)Codebook
B)Manualbook
C)Guidebook
D)Symbolbook

Question 9

Which is NOT an example of aggregate data?

A)The average height of a family
B)The percentage of city residents who oppose a policy
C)The median IQ of a classroom
D)The annual profit of a business

Question 10

When data combines several different levels, such as scores for students according to school-level variables, this is referred to as _____ datA.

A)Multiple
B)Multilevel
C)Cross
D)Substantive

Question 11

A study linked data on per-pupil spending, school size, and other school characteristics with data on the test scores of individual students .The data in this study is best described as

A)Aggregate
B)Micro
C)Multilevel
D)All of the above

Question 12

Which statement is true?

A)Longitudinal data are a type of time series datA.
B)Panel data are a type of longitudinal datA.
C)Pooled cross sectional data are a type of panel datA.
D)Prospective cohort data are a type of pooled cross sectional datA.

Question 13

________ data are gathered over time, and allow researchers to track and compare at two or more points.

A)Calibration
B)Era
C)Informational
D)Longitudinal

Question 14

Which is NOT an example of quantitative data?

A)Hourly wage of clients at a job placement agency from administrative records
B)A transcript from a focus group interview
C)A survey with mostly categorical variables
D)Medical records including a person's height

Question 15

A study used data from the Eurobarometer survey to analyze citizens' opinions .Although two years of data were used, the survey asked opinions of a new cross section of people each year .What type of data is this?

A)Panel
B)Prospective cohort
C)Pooled cross sectional
D)Cross sectional

Question 16

From an ethical standpoint, researchers using data with participants should ensure that the information is ______, in that it does not link to the identity of a specific individual.

A)Nonidentifiable
B)Nonarticulate
C)Noncommunicable
D)Nonfigurable