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Postgraduate support: Data Collection

This guide is to provide research support to postgraduate student and researchers.

Data collection methods & tools

Data collection
Data Collection Tools: Quantitative and Qualitative
Methods for data collection -Syed Muhammad Sajjad Kabir
In book: Basic Guidelines for Research: An Introductory Approach for All Disciplines.
Data collection methods (video)
Basic tools for data collection

Useful tools

Secondary data sources

SA Institutional data repositories
You may search these repositories for data sets.
Google-DataSets
Dyrad data repository
Has data from any field of research that you can use in your research
Figshare data repository
Discover data sets from all over the world
Mendeley data repository
Search 20.5 million datasets from domain-specific and cross-domain repositories
List of subject specific repositories

Recommended Literature

Research Basics by James V. (Vernon) Spickard
ISBN: 9781483387215
Publication Date: 2016-10-18
Data Collection by Patricia Pulliam Phillips; Cathy A. Stawarski
ISBN: 9781119254782
Publication Date: 2016-05-12
Data Collection by Wendy Olsen
ISBN: 9781847872562
Publication Date: 2011-12-06
Automated Data Collection with R by Simon Munzert; Christian Rubba; Peter Meißner; Dominic Nyhuis; Peter Meißner
ISBN: 9781118834800
Publication Date: 2014-12-18