data collection methods

Question 1

What is primary data in community health?

Answer 1

any data collected directly by the assessment team

Question 2

What is an example of primary data collection?

Answer 2

windshield survey (driving); primary community assessment, gives the “pulse of the community:

Question 3

What is secondary data in community health?

Answer 3

examination of data already collected for another purpose

Question 4

What are examples of secondary data?

Answer 4

• census data
• crime report data
• national health survey data
• health statistics from the state or local department of health

Question 5

What is aggregate data?

Answer 5

from those that do not include individual-level details

Question 6

What is deidentified data?

Answer 6

individual level data that does not include individual identifiers