What data are necessary to your professional practice?

Data Collection Process
Researchers must make important decisions about the types of data they will collect. Data may be quantitative, qualitative, or both.
• What data are necessary to your professional practice?
• How do you collect data for decision making?
• Are you more likely to collect quantitative data, qualitative data, or both? Explain.
• Share an example of how you have collected data and the purpose for which you collected the data.

*Your original post MUST include information from a professional, scholarly source that is cited in APA style and a complete bibliographic entry in APA 7th format style at the conclusion of the post.
Which must include a citation from at least one source.
If your source has a doi (digital object identifier), it should be included. DOIs in a reference are formatted as URLs.