Question

Determine whether the following possible responses should be classified as nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio level of measurement.

1. Do you feel that the stay in New York was sufficiently long?

2. Would your overall rating of this tour be excellent, good, fair, or poor?

3. How many vacations have you taken prior to this one?

4. The size of fries (small, medium, large) ordered by a sample of Burger King customers

Answer 1

1. Nominal level of measurement.

Since the answer of question how do you feel staying long in New York, could be YES/No, which makes it a NOMINAL as there is no natural ordering in here.

2. Ordinal level of measurement.

As the level of measurement associated with rating is always in a some order, i.e., poor->fair->good->excellent.Whenever we talk about the order it always be a ORDINAL.

3. Ratio level of measurement.

As in this question, there is a meaning of an absolute zero, i.e, 0 vacation means none, no vacation prior to this one

4. Nominal level of measurement

Since there is no such thing mention in what order the burger order is placed, it only asking that what size of burger is ordered, that is it only meant to classify the size of the order, so it comes in the Nominal level of measurement.