Chapter 1 : Types of data

Data is, what we call in normal parlance, facts and figures that we come across everyday in
newspapers, books, TV channels and the net.
Broadly, data can be classified as qualitative data and quantitative data. In any data, we have
something, called as an attribute or property or characteristic.
In the case of quantitative data, we can measure the attribute and also the number of units
having the attribute. We can take the example of an attribute like marks or income or heights.
We can measure the marks and also the number of students having so much marks.
Marks Number of students
45 5
56 10
67 2
Here marks is the attribute and number of students is called as the frequency (f). The above
table is called as a frequency table.