A researcher is investigating which publishing companies have experienced financial growth within the last three financial years.To do so,he gathers information on annual performance figures from a database online to which publishing companies had submitted earnings and other pieces of financial data.Which of the four methods of data collection was he using?
A) Data distributed by an organisation or an individual.
B) A designed experiment.
C) A survey.
D) An observational study.

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The researcher is using data distributed by an organization or an individual, as he is collecting existing data submitted by publishing companies to an online database.

A Researcher Is Investigating Which Publishing Companies Have Experienced Financial