Formative Assessment 1

1. Type of employment (business, construction, engineering, etc) - QUALITATIVE, NOMINAL

2. Sources of income (income from employment, relatives, informal sources, others) -

QUALITATIVE, NOMINAL

3. Position of employees - QUALITATIVE, ORDINAL

4. Interest rate of last salary loan granted - QUANTITATIVE, CONTINUOUS, RATIO

5. Sales performance for the past two years - QUALITATIVE, ORDINAL

6. Winners of marathon race – QUALITATIVE, ORDINAL

7. A student finished 3rd in a contest – QUALITATIVE, ORDINAL

8. Fashion store sold 210 meters of silk fabric –QUALITATIVE, NOMINAL

9. Marital status – QUALITATIVE NOMINAL

10. Grades of MBA students in Research and Statistics course – QUANTITATIVE, CONTINOUS, RATIO

Descriptive Statistics

1. The average test score of students in grade 3 math class.

2. The average age of entering Medical Schools is age 24 at the University of Georgia, based on the
information at Registrar’s office.
3. The mean score for the quarter’s examination is 87%.
4. The average age of left handed people to live is 66 years old.
5. In 2009, according to consumer reports, there 3.5 problems per one copying machines.

Inferential

1. In each month 10,000 families were chosen in random. An popular index of TV channel are
computed based from these data obtained in these families
2. The finance Department will select the sample of invoices to check for the accuracy for all the
invoices in the company.
3. By 2040, at least 3.5 Billion people will run short of water.
4. According to the national Statistics of Ethiopia, declares the outcome of its survey as “ The
population of Ethiopia in the year 2022 will likely to be 120,000,000.
5. From the survey obtained on 15 randomly selected towns of Ethiopia, it is estimated that 0.1%
of the whole urban dwellers are victims of AIDS virus.