What are the advantages and disadvantages of archival research?
What will be an ideal response?
An advantage of archival research is that it is a relatively inexpensive means of testing a hypothesis because someone else has already collected the basic data. One of the drawbacks of archival research is that the data may not be in a form that allows the researcher to test a hypothesis fully. The information could be incomplete, or it could have been collected haphazardly. Most attempts at archival research are hampered by the simple fact that records with the necessary information often do not exist.
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