CA Foundation P3 · Chapter 13 · Question 1 of 9
Data collected by an investigator directly from the source for a specific purpose are called:
Test yourself: pick an answer
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: A) Primary data
Explanation
Primary data are original data collected first-hand by the investigator for the enquiry at hand. Secondary data are data already collected by someone else and used again.
More Statistical Description of Data and Sampling MCQs
- Q3Which of the following graphs is used to locate the median of a frequency distribution graphically?
- Q4In a family budget of ₹18,000 per month, the expenditure on food is ₹4,500. In a pie chart of the budget, the angle of the food sector is:
- Q5The frequencies of five consecutive classes are 5, 8, 12, 15 and 10. The 'less than' cumulative frequency of the third class is:
- Q6The number of possible samples of size 3 that can be drawn without replacement from a population of 10 units (order not considered) is:
- Q7A sampling method in which the population is divided into homogeneous sub-groups and a random sample is drawn from each sub-group is called: