Exercises in Inferential

Statistics
: ZANORIA, STEPHANIE L. MAEd - FILIPINO
NAME
: DR. NOLASCO K. MALABAGO
PROFESSOR
EXERCISE NO. 1 : CLASSIFICATION OF DATA

APPLYING CONCEPTS
1. Identify the following as Quantitative or Qualitative variable. Indicate the level of
measurement required (minimum level).

1.1. Income per month of employees

Answers Reasons
QUANTITATIVE DATA INTERVAL LEVEL- Ranging the Salary Php 20,000- Php 25,000
NOMINAL LEVEL- Salary based on Position and Step Increment

1.2. Citizenship
Answers Reasons
QUALITATIVE DATA NOMINAL LEVEL- Based on the nationality and its
characteristics

1.3. Educational Level of Respondent

Answers Reasons
QUANTITATIVE DATA Nominal Level- based on the gender respondent
Ordinal Level- Categorize as educational level (High School
undergrad, High School Grad, Undergraduate degree and
Graduate degree

1.4. Air temperature of the Sahara Desert

Answers Reasons
QUANTITATIVE DATA Interval Level- ranging the average of the dessert air
temperature
Nominal Level- based on climatic regimes: dry subtropical
climate and dry tropical climate

1.5. Number of Children in the Family

Answers Reasons
QUANTITATIVE DATA Nominal Level- based on gender of the children
Ordinal Level- identifying the birth month of the children
Ratio Level- based age of the child/ren like 0- to 12 months, 13
to 48 months, 49 to 96 mos. So on and so forth
Interval Level- ranging the respondent /child/ren upon on their
age

2. Below are some objects of varying degrees of abstraction. Provide characteristics or properties
of each of these objects that can be measured and classified according to the four basic types of
scales.

2.1. Store Customers

Level of Measurements Characteristics or Properties
Ranging the hours having plenty of
Interval number of customers
Number of customers getting the
Ratio products like shampoo
Brand of the products bought by the
Ordinal customers
Nominal Gender of the customers

2.2. Voter Attitudes

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Level of Measurements Characteristics or Properties
Interval Scale the attitudes rendered by a
political parties
Ratio Number of voters using social media
Ordinal Ranking of the extent of political
support for a political party
Nominal Political participation
2.3. Preference for a particular Common Stock
Level of Measurements Characteristics or Properties
Scale the services shown by the staff
Interval of a cooperative bank.
Range the dividend and patronage
Ratio refund based on the amount they
shared.
Rank the stakeholders had the
Ordinal
biggest account .
Gender and marital status of the
Nominal
stakeholders in a cooperative bank
2.4. Profitability of various Divisions in a Company
Level of Measurements Characteristics or Properties
Interval Scale the profit from 0 to 5
Calculate the profiatable ratio in
Ratio every division
Determine and rank the profit of
Ordinal every division
Determine the division of the
Nominal company

2.5. Hardness of Steel Alloys

Level of Measurements Characteristics or Properties
Composition contain in hardness of
Interval steel alloy in application of
construction(buildings, railroad,
bridges and houses)
Ratio Number of steel alloys applied in
construction
Ordinal
Uses of steel alloys in industries
Types of steel alloys applied in
Nominal construction(buildings, railroad,
bridges and houses)

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