Which is better for data collection: Mean (average), Median or Mode

Mean if the range is small and median if the range is large. Also depends alot on what your data set is

It depends on what your data is and what you want to know.

>>35807269
Depends on the data, the distribution and what you want to show. For example with income median is probably better while with height...well it doesn't matter.

>>35807269
Mean median and mode are measures of central tendency - they've got nothing to do with collection.

>>35807672
I think OP was referring to the creation of statistics based on data.