RESEARCH

DATA

 Fact or a set of information or observation

Give 2 categories of data

QUALITATIVE DATA

 Words

QUANTITATIVE DATA

 Numbers

Types of qualitative data

NOMINAL

 To distinguish 1 object from another for identification purpose

ORDINAL

 Arranged in some specified order or rank

Types of quantitative data

DISCRETE VARIABLE

 A finite number of values

CONTINIOUS DATA

 Infinite value within a specified value.

Method of COLLECTIVE DATA

DIRECT or Interview method

 Direct contact w/ the inerviwee

 Asking questions

INDIRECT or QUESTIONNAIRE METHOD

 Use written questionnaire

OBSERVATION METHOD
  Seen or experienced
 Act of noticing something

EXPERIMENTAL METHOD

 Used to find out the cause and effect relationship

METHOD OF DATA PRESENTATION

 Refers to the organization of data into tables, graphs, and charts

TEXTUAL METHOD

 Presented in paragraph form

 Combination of text and figure

TABULAR METHOD

 Presented in rows and columns

 More precise, systematic and orderly presented

PARTS:

TABLE NUMBER

 For easy reference to the table

TABLE TITLE

 Briefly explains the content of the data

COLUMN HEADER

 Describes the data in each column

ROW CLASSIFIER

 Shows the categories

BODY

 The main part of the table

GRAPHICAL METHOD

 Using graph
 Identify the cause and effect relationship
BAR CHART

 is a graph represented by either vertical or horizontal rectangles whose bases represent the
class interval and whose heights represent the frequencies.

HISTOGRAM

 is a graph represented by vertical or horizontal rectangles whose bases are the class marks and
whose heights are the frequencies.

FREQUENCY POLYGON

 is a line graph whose bases are the class marks and whose heights are the frequencies.

PIE CHART

 is a circle graph showing the proportion of each class through either the relative or percentage
frequency. 

FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION

 Tabulation or grouping of data into appropriate categories showing the number of observations
in each groups or category.

Types of Frequency Distribution Table

Ungrouped Data Frequency Distribution

 Simply arrangement of data from lowest to highest which shows the frequency of occurrence of
each value in a set.

Grouped Data Frequency Distribution

 Is an arrangement of data into different classes or categories. It involves counting the data
which fall into each class