Levels Of Data(research methods)

Question 1

Types of data

Answer 1

Nominal
Ordinal
Interval

Question 2

What is nominal data (categorical data)

Answer 2

Where umbers usually refer to people in categories, how frequently something occurs
Appropriate descriptive statistics for nominal data:
Percentage, mode, ratio, pie chart and bar chart

Question 3

What is ordinal data

Answer 3

Where the scores obtained are in a numerical scale and can be put in rank order
Usually based on opinion therefore tends to be subjective
Appropriate descriptive data:
Line graph, histogram, pie chart

Question 4

What is interval data

Answer 4

Data is on a numerical scale with units of equal, definable size.
Data is objective
Appropriate descriptive statistics: any