LEVELS OF

MEASUREMENT
SIR LY
 OBJECTIVE:

•to identify and differentiate the

different levels of measurement and
methods of data collection
 LEVELS OF MEASUREMENT

•NOMINAL
•ORDINAL
•INTERVAL
•RATIO
 NOMINAL LEVEL
•A measurement arises when we have
variables that are categorical and non-
numeric or where the numbers have no
sense of ordering
EX.
Numbers on the uniform, Sex, Marital
status, religion affiliation, college major,
blood type
 Ordinal level
•deals with categorical variables like the
nominal level, but in this level ordering is
important, that is the values of the variable
could be ranked (note: no zero point and
distance is not considered).
•Socio-economic status, educational level,
range of income, satisfactory rating,
grades
 Interval Level

• tells us that one unit differs by a certain amount of

degree from another unit.
• It categorizes and ranks data
• introduces precise and continuous intervals.
• Temperature, Ph Scale, times of the day
 Interval Level
• Interval data are measured using continuous intervals
that show order, direction, and a consistent
difference in values.
• The difference between values on an interval scale
is always evenly distributed.
• Interval datasets have no ‘true zero.
• frequency distribution; mode, median, and mean; and
the range, standard deviation, and variance of a
dataset
 Ratio Level
•Highest of four hierarchical levels of
measurement
•The levels, or scales, of measurement
indicate how precisely data is recorded
•the higher the level, the more complex the
measurement is.
•categorizes and ranks data, and uses
continuous intervals
 Ratio Level

•categorizes and ranks data, and uses

continuous intervals
•values can be categorized, ordered, have
equal intervals and take on a true zero.
•Height, age, weekly food consumption,
number of people in a household
Identify if it is nominal, ordinal, interval or ratio
1. Workplace status
2. Degree of pain
3. Blood type
4. Degree of sweetness
5. Political preference
6. Length of a pencil
7. Place you live
8. Usual sleeping time
9. Happiness index of the day
10.Brand of laundry soap