Question

in Exercise 1, Table 1 (text page 6) what demographic variables were measured at the nominal level of measurement? a. Marital Status, Education, Income b. Family race/ethnicity, Parent marital status, child gender - male c. Education and Income d. None of the above

Answer 1

Nominal variables have two or more categories without having any kind of natural order.

So, Income can not be a nominal variable as they have order based on their numerical value. So, the correct answer is

b. Family race/ethnicity, Parent marital status, child gender - male

Explanation - There can be only finite categories of Family race/ethnicity without any natural order. Similarly, marital status have two categories - single or married and gender have two categories - male or female. These categories do not have any kind of natural order.