Question

Your supervisor asks you to survey the staff to determine which employees have received vaccinations and which types.

Your completion of this research is: ________

Primary research

Secondary research

Tertiary research

This is not research.

You design a study to collect data from patients being treated with a new surgical procedure.

You interview each participant in the study immediately after surgery, one day later, three days later, and one week later.

You are collecting: ____

Cross-sectional data

Time-series data

Panel data

Secondary data

Answer 1

1. The supervisor has asked you to just determine the vaccination status of the employees and the types of vaccination they have received, it does not involve any analysis of effectiveness of vaccination, you are just asked to collect the information, therefore the correct answer would be Primary research.

2. Panel data is a collection of information and observation through a time period with the same subject unlike cross-sectional data which has many variables.Therefore, the correct answer would be Panel data.