DATABASE FUNDAMENTALS
TYPES OF DATA
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Nominal
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Ordinal
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -marital status is a nominal variable.
Detailed explanation-2: -For example, gender and ethnicity are always nominal level data because they cannot be ranked. However, for other variables, you can choose the level of measurement.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ordinal data is data that can be ranked or ordered. Examples include data taken from a poll or survey. Nominal data is data that can be made to fit various categories. Examples include whether an animal is a mammal, fish, reptile, amphibian, or bird.
Detailed explanation-4: -Nominal: Unordered categorical variables. These can be either binary (only two categories, like gender: male or female) or multinomial (more than two categories, like marital status: married, divorced, never married, widowed, separated).