Qualitative | Uses narrative or descriptive data rather than numbers. For example, a description of the views and attitudes of those receiving/providing a service. |
Quantitative | Gives numerical results. For example, the percentage of participants completing a programme. |
Baseline | This is data for the period before the service change, to compare with the period after implementation of the change. |
Benchmarking | This is performance data on your service that can be compared with similar data collected on other services locally and nationally. |
Primary | This is additional new data. |
Secondary | This is existing data and will include information you or others already collect. For example, monitoring data, local and national audits, census data. |
Sampling | |