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Using data to aid organisational change
Using data to aid organisational change

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4 What is secondary data?

In order for you to better understand the context you have selected for your change project and to help address your chosen issue, you will need to collect information or data. Put simply, if you conduct the research yourself, it is called primary data and if you use data that has been gathered by someone else, this is secondary data.