Question

Residents of a building were recently surveyed and asked a series of questions. One of the questions was:

“What is your age?”

Determine the type of data.

Select one:

ordinal qualitative

nominal qualitative

discrete quantitative

continuous quantitative

Answer 1

Age is a continuous variable, however, while recording age we record it in years and the months/days are usually not recorded, even the respondent also doesn't report exact age, they round it to nearest years i.e, even if age is 12 years 2 months or 12 years 6 months, it is usually reported as 12 years. Hence, age takes discrete values. So, it is a discrete quantitative variable.

So, for the survey, we will take age as discrete quantitative variable.

Hence, the option (d) is the correct option.