LASU Journal of Employment Relations and Human Resource Management
(LJERHRM)
ISSN: 2705-3482
Volume 1, No. 1, December 2018
Pages 182-194
DOI: 10.36108/ljerhrm/8102.01.0102
AN ASSESSMENT OF THE RELIABILITY OF SECONDARY DATA IN MANAGEMENT SCIENCE RESEARCH
OLABODE, Segun Oluwaseun1*; BAKARE Akeem Abayomi2; OLATEJU Olawale Ibrahim (PhD)3
Department of Management Technology, Faculty of Management Sciences, Lagos State university, Lagos, Nigeria1,2,3.
Corresponding Author: segun.olabode@lasu.edu.ng
Abstract
Secondary data (SD) provides major advantage in the use of existing data sources, with large amounts of information, at relatively cheaper cost and easily available for research purposes. In the database will be available through SD, which would be impossible to collect in prospective studies. But an unreliable data could impede on the quality of research results and conclusions. Critical examination of literatures in the course of the study has helped to identify tools that can aid the assessment of SD reliability. The study believes that the use of the adjusted inter-raters/observer as proposed by the study will add value to the method of assessing the reliability of SD, because of it use of statistical tools to directly estimate the available data. The study also believes that this will serve as a base for other researchers to improve on the study of assessing the reliability of secondary data.
KEYWORDS: Inter-raters/observer, Reliability, Secondary data, Validity