Types of Data

Question 1

What are the two types of qualitative data?

Answer 1

Nominal and ordinal

Question 2

What are the two types of quantitative data?

Answer 2

Discrete and continuous

Question 3

What are the two types of continuous data?

Answer 3

Interval and ratio

Question 4

What type of data is the following?

-Mutually exclusive, named categories
-Often recorded as frequencies
-No obvious sequence

Answer 4

Nominal

Question 5

What type of data is the following?

-Mutually exclusive, named categories with a natural order
-Differences between ranks are not equal

Answer 5

Ordinal

Question 6

What type of data is the following?

-Usually counts, which are whole numbers or integers
-Intervals between values are measurable and equal
-Values cannot be subdivided meaningfully

Answer 6

Discrete

Question 7

What type of data is the following?

-Infinite number of possible values between any two points (decimal places)
-Intervals between values are measurable and equal
-Values can be subdivided meaningfully

Answer 7

Continuous

Question 8

What type of data is the following?

-Infinite number of possible values between any two points (decimal places)
-Intervals between values are measurable and equal
-Zero is a meaningful value and values can be negative

Answer 8

Interval

Question 9

What type of data is the following?

-Infinite number of possible values between any two points (decimal places)
-Intervals between values are measurable and equal
-Has a ‘true zero’ (values cannot be negative)
-Possible to form meaningful rations

Answer 9

Ratio