Question

What variable type is race/ethnicity?

Group of answer choices

continuous

dichotomous

ordinal

nominal

Answer 1

A nominal scale is used to name the categories within the variables you use in your research. This kind of scale provides no ranking or ordering of values; it simply provides a name for each category within a variable so that you can track them among your data. Which is to say, it satisfies the measurement of identity, and identity alone.

So race including (white, Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, etc.) So therefore race is nominal type variable.

Usually, ethnicity is a collective noun, but in the singular, an ethnicity is a particularethnic group. The adjective ethnic relates to large groups of people who have certain racial, cultural, religious, or other traits in common. In Middle English, ethnic meant heathen or pagan.

So ethenticity is nominal type variable.