a The secondary data required for this research question relate to organisations’

employee relocation policies. The research question assumes that these sorts of data are likely to be available from organisations. Textbooks, research papers and informal discussions would enable you to confirm that these data were likely to be available.
Informal discussions with individuals responsible for the personnel function in organisations would also confirm the existence and availability for research of such data.
b The secondary data required for this research question relate to consumer spending patterns in your home country. As these appear to be the sort of data in which the government would be interested, they may well be available via the Internet or in published form. For the UK, examination of the Office for National Statistics and direct.gov information gateways ( Table 8.2 ) would reveal that these data were collected by the annual Expenditure and Food Survey providing hyperlinks to a series of reports including Family Spending: A Report of the 2009 Living Costs and Food Survey (Office for National Statistics 2010), summary results of which are published (Office for National Statistics 2010). Summary data could also be downloaded. In addition, reports could be borrowed either from your university library or by using inter-library loan.

c The secondary data required for this research question are less clear. What you require is some source from which you can infer past and present government attitudes. Relative changes in spending data, such as appears in quality newspapers, might be useful; although this would need to be examined within each department budget. Transcripts of ministers’ speeches and newspaper reports might prove useful.

However, to establish suitable secondary sources for this research question you would need to pay careful attention to those used by other researchers. These would be outlined in research papers and textbooks. Informal discussions could also prove useful.