Question

Classify the following data. Indicate whether the data is qualitative or quantitative, indicate whether the data is discrete, continuous, or neither, and indicate the level of measurement for the data.

A supervisor must give a summary evaluation rating from among the choices given below:

   1) Poor   2) Fair   3) Good   4) Very good   5) Excellent

Are these data qualitative or quantitative?

Are these data discrete or continuous?

What is the highest level of measurement the data possesses?

Answer 1

The data is qualitative

(The measurement is not a numerical value. It is description and a non numeric category is the value the variable can take, making it a qualitative variable)

The data is discrete

(The variable cannot have infinite number of values possible. Only the 5 choices given are the possible values of the variable. Therefore, it is discrete)

Highest level of measurement - Ordinal

(The variable can be arranged in an order but do not have meaningful differences between the values. There for variable is having ordinal level as the highest level of measurement)