Determine the level of measurement for each of the following variables.pdf
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The document outlines the need to classify various variables by their level of measurement and whether they are discrete or continuous. It includes examples such as education, ethnicity, marital status, income, and ideological self-placement. The focus is on quantitative variables measured in interval or ratio scales.
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Determine the level of measurement for each of the following variables.pdf
- 1. Determine the level of measurement for each of the following variables and further identify whether it is discrete or continuous variable if the variable is measured quantitatively (i.e., in interval or ratio scale): (i) Education (in years) (ii) Level of Education (no high school diploma, high school graduate, some college, college graduate, some graduate school) (iii) Ethnicity (White, Indigenous, Visible Minority) (iv) Marital Status (married, widowed, divorced, separated, never married) (v) Income (in dollars) (vi) Social Class (working class, middle class, upper class) (vii) Postal Code (viii) Abortion (number of instances in which abortion should be legal: 0 - 7) (ix) Time to run a 5- kilometer race (x) Ideological self-placement (extremely liberal, liberal, slightly liberal, moderate, slightly conservative, conservative, extremely conservative