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External data

AAndy6y ago
Historical records of expenditure on canteen costs in a hospital in order to prepare current forecasts Sir is the above statement an example of secondary source of data?
John MoffatJohn MoffatTutor6y ago#1
Yes, because the records were not kept specifically for the purpose of making forecasts. (I don't know why you have headed up the post 'external data', because this is internal data.)
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