HCA-498 Discussion

What are the major problems in using secondary data sources, such as birth or death certificate data? What, if anything, can the evaluator do about these problems.

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Discussion

Secondary data sources refer to sources of data that have been collected by another party apart from the one using it. Examples of such data include censuses and information collected by government departments. When using secondary data sources, many problems can be encountered.

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