To get the census of the country, the government collected data from hospitals for the number of births and deaths of people.

What does this data known as?

Primary

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Secondary

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Tertiary

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None of these

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Solution

The correct option is B
Secondary

If a data is collected from already existing source/sources, it is known as the secondary data.

In this question, the data is collected from the hospitals. Since the data is gathered from a source with stored information, it is secondary data.

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