An NGO, located in Bangladesh is serving people of underprivileged section of the community. It performs different types of rural based developmental tasks for the people like micro credit financial help for making them solvent and self reliant. The firm wants to know demographic information about the people living in the community. You, being a research assistant of that firm are appointed to gather relevant data for that purpose. a) State different methods of collecting data from the respondents along with advantages and demerits thereof.

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An NGO, located in Bangladesh is serving people of underprivileged section of the community. It
performs different types of rural based developmental tasks for the people like micro credit financial help
for making them solvent and self reliant. The firm wants to know demographic information about the
people living in the community. You, being a research assistant of that firm are appointed to gather
relevant data for that purpose.
a) State different methods of collecting data from the respondents along with advantages and
demerits thereof.

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As mentioned in the question, the information which the NGO needs are  under privileged kids who would need micro credit financial needs. This is a very difficult task for any firm. Data can be categorized as primary and secondary on the basis of source where it is collected from.

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