This essay will describe the strength and limitation of using an official statistic to investigate social class difference in top comprehensive school. The general aim of this research is to uncover proportion of working class or poor children with the use of free school meal in top comprehensive school and on GCSE. This research will use Official statistic which are secondary data(it been done before) and are statistics that are published by government and reputable research Organisation which are heavily used by sociologist.
The practical strength of using an official statistic to investigate social class differences in top comprehensive school is that there is more research opportunities and easy access for researcher to collect them. for example we have School census, free school meals data files and they could be collected in the Libraries, buy books, computer and more. This therefore, makes it easier to research and also make it less time consuming compare to using a primary data ( getting the information(school census) all by yourself). Furthermore, it also a cheap and less money is needed to be spent as you could just go to the library and use the computer or borrow books which is also free and this is a strength as if compared again with Primary research everything will be funded by you and it will be extremely expensive. This are the strength and limitation of using an official statistic to investigate social class differences in top comprehensive school
Ethnical strength of using an official statistic to investigate social class in top comprehensive school is that the official statistic is already done so no illegal or unethical or immoral means is needed to be done compare to primary data where it can be immoral and unethical ( for example in unstructured interview you change who you