What are Primary and Secondary Data Collection?
Primary data collection involves direct contact with, or observation of, one or more people for the purpose of collecting data from or about them. Secondary data collection involves accessing information that has already been obtained about human participants, either individually or in aggregate form. Secondary data which contains personal identifiers is participant to the Requirements for Undergraduate Student Research Projects that follow. Secondary data which do not contain personal identifiers are exempt from these requirements. Secondary data – whether it does or does not contain personal identifiers – may be used only when original consent was obtained which allows the information to be used in this manner. What is Minimal Risk? According to the TCPS, “the standard of minimal risk is commonly defined as follows: if potential participants can reasonably be expected to regard the probability and magnitude of possible harms implied by participation in the research to be no greater t
