TYPES OF VARIABLES/ TYPES OF DATA

SCALES OF MEASUREMENT / LEVELS OF MEASUREMENT

1. The number of questions asked by a customer during a simulated encounter with a

salesperson (Quantitative discrete / ratio)
2. Years of working experience
3. The marital status
4. Monthly income
5. The education level
6. Normal operating temperature of a car engine
7. A classification of students by academic program
8. Speakers of a seminar are rated as either excellent, good, average or poor
9. Number of hours parents spend with their children per day
10. Telephone number
11. IC number
12. Date of birth
13. Price of land
14. Depth of ocean
15. Number of households
16. The order in which the group of athletes finishes the 100- meter event
17. Scores of Statistics test for 45 students in a class, expressed in points out of 100
18. Today’s temperature is 37 degrees Celsius
19. Rankings of hotels in Kuala Lumpur
20. The political party supported by the citizens of Malaysia
21. The religious group that one affiliates
22. The time it takes to complete a checking task
23. The rank of a person's salary within the company
24. Rank order based on IQ score in the sample
25. the square footage of each participant's house or apartment
26. the size of the cerebellum expressed as a volume
27. the number of frustrated comments made during a laboratory negotiation task
28. the time it takes for a couple to resolve a custody issue during court ordered mediation
29. the temperature at night recorded at six different countries in Europe
30. the number of pound lost during a six-week diet
31. the proportion of weight lost during a six-week diet
32. the heart rate of the participant
33. the percent shift in heart rate over baseline during an emotionally demanding task
34. the percent of errors made on a classification task
35. the number of false alarm responses in a monitoring task
36. the types of grammatical errors made in a writing sample
37. the type of categorization errors in a sorting task
38. the age at which one went on his or her first date
39. the number of children in your family
40. the teacher's rankings of cooperativeness in the classroom
41. Flavors of frozen yogurt
42. Amount of money in savings accounts
43. Letter grades on an English essay
44. Religions
45. Commuting times to work
46. Ages (in years) of art students
47. Ice cream flavor preference
48. Instructors classified as: Easy, Difficult or Impossible
49. Number of football jersey
50. The order that runners cross the finish line