Types of Data (EX 2A)

What is your favourite football team?

• Nominal

• Ordinal

How often do you exercise? Choose one of ‘never’, ‘once a month’, ‘once a week’, ‘every day’.

• Nominal

• Ordinal

Indicate how strongly you agree with ‘alcohol is the major cause of accidents’ by selecting one of ‘strongly agree’, ‘agree’, ‘disagree’, ‘strongly disagree’

• Nominal

• Ordinal

What language will you study next year, ‘French’, ‘Chinese’, ‘Spanish’ or ‘none’?

• Nominal

• Ordinal

Kindergarten pupils bring along their favourite toys, and they are grouped together under the headings ‘dolls’, ‘soft toys’, ‘games’, ‘cars’ and ‘other’.

• Categorical

• Numerical

The number of students on each of 20 school buses are counted.

• Categorical

• Numerical

A group of people each write down their favourite colour

• Categorical

• Numerical

Each student in a class is weighed in kilograms.

• Categorical

• Numerical

Students are weighed and then classified as ‘light’, ‘average’ or ‘heavy’.

• Categorical

• Numerical

People rate their enthusiasm for a certain rock group as ‘low’, ‘medium’ or ‘high’.

• Categorical

• Numerical