Question

A distribution for the variable education utilizes the following categories: less than high school, high school graduate, some college, and college graduate. What is the level of measurement for this variable?

Answer 1

Ordinal Variables

Explanation:

Ordinal level of variable measurement is the level of measurement that depicts high level of ordered relationship among the variable’s observations.

The ordinal level of measurement indicates an ordering of the measurements.

This type of variable have a meaningful order to them. An example is class grade (with possible values of Excellent, Very Good, Good, Credit, Fair and Poor).

Another example is the education level (with possible values of high school, undergraduate degree, and graduate degree).