Question

You are studying in a school which is nearly 500 km away from your home town. As a student you are keen to collect statistical information relating to literacy rate in your town. Which mode of data collection will you prefer to adopt? Give reasons in support of your answer.

Answer 1

We can use the indirect investigation method in order to collect the information regarding the literacy rates in our town. Under this we can use the data published by the local government agencies and other reliable non-government agencies.The reason behind choosing this method is that this method will prove less time consuming as well as it is a cheap method of collecting information. Also by using this method we can seek opinion of the experts thereby making this information more reliable.