Numerical Data: data that has its values in the form of a number, the number of customers entering a restaurant at lunchtime, the time it takes for students to get to school, the total amount of money raised for a charity, Categorical Data: data that has its values in the form of a labels, names, groups etc, colours of cars in a car park, favourite flavours of crisps of first year students, types of social media, Primary Data: data collected by the person/group that are going to use that data for themselves, a student carried out a questionnaire of his classmates to investigate the average time spent on homework, a company carried out a survey to see if their employees would benefit from a 4 day working week, Secondary Data: data from another source collected by someone else or found on the internet or from books/newspapers, a student used the internet to check how many times Roscommon had won an All Ireland football final, a local authority used the census to plan a new transport route in the locality,

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