Statistical Data Types Explained:
Nominal, Ordinal, Interval & Ratio REAL
2025
Rationale - ANSWER ✨✔---The key to understanding what we can do with statistics, both from a
creator and from a user point of view, is to know and understand the characteristics of the data being
examined.
Data - ANSWER ✨✔---The information we collect about a topic or subject under investigation
Qualitative (categorical) - ANSWER ✨✔---Data that can be placed into distinct partitions or
categories according to some defining characteristic or attribute
Quantitative Data - ANSWER ✨✔---numerical in nature, result from a process that counts or
measures, can be ordered or ranked, can be used in meaningful copmutations
Qualitative Nominal Data - ANSWER ✨✔---Classifies data into mutually exclusive (non-
overlapping), exhaustive categories in which no order of ranking ( better or worse) can be imposed on
the data (may be numeric or non-numeric).
Nominal, Ordinal, Interval & Ratio REAL
2025
Rationale - ANSWER ✨✔---The key to understanding what we can do with statistics, both from a
creator and from a user point of view, is to know and understand the characteristics of the data being
examined.
Data - ANSWER ✨✔---The information we collect about a topic or subject under investigation
Qualitative (categorical) - ANSWER ✨✔---Data that can be placed into distinct partitions or
categories according to some defining characteristic or attribute
Quantitative Data - ANSWER ✨✔---numerical in nature, result from a process that counts or
measures, can be ordered or ranked, can be used in meaningful copmutations
Qualitative Nominal Data - ANSWER ✨✔---Classifies data into mutually exclusive (non-
overlapping), exhaustive categories in which no order of ranking ( better or worse) can be imposed on
the data (may be numeric or non-numeric).
