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The data collection methodology is broadly classified into two types,

Primary Data Collection

Secondary Data Collection

Primary Data Collection : Primary data is the original data that has been collected specially for the purpose in mind. It means someone collected the data from the original source first hand. Data collected this way is called as primary data.

Primary data can be explained, therefore, as information collected from sources such as personal interviews, questionnaires or surveys with a specific intention and on a specific subject, and observation and discussion by the researcher him or herself, which information is then assessed by that person. It is a direct approach and, as it is tailored to a company's particular needs, reveals apparently, much-needed information to that company which started the research, that is, the results are used for the purpose for which they were originally intended. It can be a lengthy process but does provide first-hand information.

Secondary Data Collection : Secondary data is data that has been collected for another purpose. When we use Statistical Method with Primary Data from another purpose for our purpose we refer to it as Secondary Data. It means that one purpose's Primary Data is another purpose's Secondary Data.

Secondary data is data that is being reused. Secondary data is information that is already available somewhere, whether it be in journals, on the internet, in a company's records or, on a larger scale, in corporate or governmental archives. Secondary data allows for comparison of, say, several years worth of statistical information relating to, for example, a sector of the economy, where the information may be used to measure the effects of change or whatever it is that is being researched.

Primary Data Collection is the one which I have chosen for this project and would like to prefer “Observation” method for having detailed data.

The reason for chosing the Observation method is because of it's...