Paper 4

Question 1

What is “primary data”?

Answer 1

• Any data that is personally collected by you. (This does not mean collect off the Internet)
• Traffic counts, pedestrian counts, environmental indexes, questionnaires or land use surveys.

Question 2

What is “secondary data”?

Answer 2

• Any data that has been collected by someone else.
• Maybe found in books, on the Internet, academic journals, etc.
• Most usefuol secondary data is census data.

Question 3

What is a “census”?

Answer 3

• A survey carried out by nearly all countries every 10 years.
• Very detailed survey that is compulsory for everyone to fill in.
• Includes a lot of data including family size, income, house size and car ownership.

Question 4

What to do if the question ask you to finish the pie chart?

Answer 4

Percentage/100 x 360 = Degree