ABSTRACT
Secondary analysis can be used to generate new knowledge or for heuristic purposes. In research methods terms, coroners were using a set of indicators to define a sudden death as a suicide that does not adequately reflect how Durkheim would have operationalised the variable if he had had the opportunity to do so. The British Crime Survey (BCS) is an annual sample survey of the population that has been conducted every year for over 10 years. The British Social Attitudes Survey (BSA) is a sample survey of 3600 randomly selected respondents aged 18 or over. The National Child Development Study (NCDS) is a continuing longitudinal study that has followed more than 5000 people born in the first week of March 1946 from birth into adulthood. The History Data Service (HDS) brings together and maintains a national historical archive of social and economic historical data produced by academic historians and distributes this information in digital form.
