Understanding Data Types in Statistics

What type of data is represented by colors of cars?

• Continuous data

• Categorical data

• Ordinal data

• Quantitative data

Is the number of students in a classroom qualitative or quantitative?

• categorical

• descriptive

• quantitative

• qualitative

Which of the following is an example of discrete data?

• Number of students in a classroom

• Temperature in a classroom

• Time taken for a test

• Height of students in a classroom

What type of data is represented by the height of students?

• Categorical data

• Ordinal data

• Discrete numerical data

• Continuous numerical data

Classify the following data: the names of countries.

• List of languages

• List of cities

• List of countries

• List of continents

Provide an example of continuous data.

• Weight of individuals

• Types of fruits

• Height of individuals

• Number of students in a class

Is the number of pets owned by a family qualitative or quantitative?

• qualitative

• categorical

• quantitative

• nominal

Which of the following is qualitative data: age, gender, or temperature?

• height

• gender

• time

• weight

Differentiate between discrete and continuous data with an example.

• Discrete data: temperature readings; Continuous data: number of raindrops.

• Continuous data: number of cars; Discrete data: speed of cars.

• Discrete data: number of students; Continuous data: height of students.

• Continuous data: number of books; Discrete data: weight of books.

What type of data is represented by the temperature in degrees Celsius?

• Categorical data (ordinal scale)

• Discrete data (binary scale)

• Qualitative data (nominal scale)

• Quantitative data (interval scale)