Answer to Question #198828 in Sociology for abdul moiz

Question

From the following variables, Categories them and also write a reason?

Number of children per family, Watch, Age, length of hair, Willing, weight of a box, love, height of

a tree, color of Shirts, life of a person, interest, hate, Speedo meter, number of citizens of a

country, employee performance, behavior, temperature, life of bulb.

Answer 1

Ordinal Variables- is a type of measurement variable that accepts values in a particular order or rank in this case we can group age, number of children per family, length of hair, the height of a book, number of citizens of a country as ordinal variables.

A nominal variable is a variable that is used to name, label or categorize specific attributes being measured. It accepts qualitative values representing various categories like a watch, interest, hate, love, the color of shirts, and willing.

The interval variable is a measurement variable that is used to define values measured along a scale, with each point being placed at an equal distance from the next. For example life of a person, speedometer, temperature, and life of a bulb.

Ratio Variable- the height of a tree, employee performance this is so because all this when measured they can include a zero value.