What are the secondary data sources you can identify?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. Examples of research-oriented secondary data sources include the Area Resource File, National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, National Health Interview Survey, National Hospital Discharge Survey, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, HRSA Geospatial Data Warehouse, Uniform Data System (UDS), Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), Healthcare Cost and Use Project (HCUP), Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), National Health Care Survey (NHCS), National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS), National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses, and Medicaid Analytic eXtract.
Examples of nonresearch-oriented secondary data sources include:
• Public documents and official records, such as government agency proceedings, court records, state laws, city ordinances, directories, almanacs, and indexes such as the New York Times Article Archive and The Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature
• Official statistics, such as vital statistics from birth, death, marriage, and divorce certificates, and census data
• Private documents and records, such as diaries, letters, notes, personnel and sales records, inventories, tax records, and patient records
• Media, such as the Internet, television, newspapers, radio, periodicals, and movies
• Physical nonverbal materials, such as works of art (paintings and pictures), artifacts, and collections
Responses identifying other secondary data sources are also acceptable.
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