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Variables: Prepared By: Belly Jane P. Larracas
Variables: Prepared By: Belly Jane P. Larracas
PREPARED BY:
BELLY JANE P. LARRACAS
CHAPTER 1: NATURE OF INQUIRY AND
RESEARCH
D. THE NATURE OF VARIABLES
I. Variables
A. Quantitative Variable
B. Qualitative Variable
Example:
Educational attainment of parents is another variable, it may be from did not attend to
school to post-doctorate degree.
Difference between Quantitative and Qualitative Variable:
Ordinal, Interval, Ratio, and Nominal • Dog breeds (variables include: Alaskan
Malamute, German Shepherd, Siberian
are the scale of quantitative measure. Husky, Shih tzu).
TYPES OF VARIABLES
1
CONTINUOUS VARIABLE
A variable that can take infinite number on the value that can occur
within a population and which can be divided into fractions.
Example:
height and weight of students in class
time it takes to get to school
distance traveled between classes
RATIO VARIABLES
INTERVAL VARIABLES
• Is a interval variable that possesses the
properties of interval variable and has a clear
• Is a measurement where the definition of zero, indication that there is none
of the variable.
difference between two values does
have meaning. Example:
Example: Temperature measured in degrees Celsius
or Fahrenheit, it is not a ratio variable
The difference between a because 0C does not mean there is no
temperature of 60° and 50° is the temperature.
same difference between 30° and
20°. Other examples of ratio variables include
height, mass, distance and many more.
TYPES OF VARIABLES
2
DISCRETE VARIABLES
• Variables whose data are non- • Similar to categorical, but there is a clear
numeric labels that do not reflect ordering of the variables.
quantitative information. • It has two or more categories which can be
• It has two or more categories but ranked.
does not imply ordering of cases.
Example:
• A sub-type of nominal scale with only
two categories is called Dichotomous. Educational level might be categorized as:
1: Elementary school education
Example: 2: High school graduate
Gender 3: Some college
Blood type 4: College graduate
5: Graduate degree
Eye color
OTHER TYPES OF VARIABLES
1 INDEPENDENT VARIABLE
4 MODERATOR VARIABLE
2 DEPENDENT VARIABLE
5 CONTROLLED VARIABLE
3 INTERVENING VARIABLE
OTHER TYPES OF VARIABLES
1 INDEPENDENT VARIABLE
• The cause variation or the one responsible for the conditions that act on
something else to bring out changes.
• Whatever the case may be, the researcher expects that the independent
variable(s) will have some effect either in a positive or negative way on
the dependent variables.
2 DEPENDENT VARIABLE
Test Score
The length of time spent
sleeping
OTHER TYPES OF VARIABLES
3 INTERVENING VARIABLE
4 MODERATOR VARIABLE
5 CONTROLLED VARIABLE
• A variable that must be kept constant for a fair test in order to assess or
clarify the relationship between two other variables.
EXAMPLE:
SUMMARY
• Variables is anything that has quantity or quality that may vary from one group to
another group, one person to another or even with the same person.
• Quantitative variable is a variables that are measured on a numeric or quantitative
scale while Qualitative variable or Categorical variable are variables that are not
numerical, describes data that fits into categories.
• Continuous variable is a variable that can take infinite number on the value that can
occur within a population and which can be divided into fractions. It can be categorized
as interval variables and ratio variables.
• Interval variables is a measurement where the difference between two values does
have meaning while ratio variables is a interval variable that possesses the properties of
interval variable and has a clear definition of zero
SUMMARY
• Discrete variable is any variable that has a limited number of district values and which
cannot be divided into fractions. It can be categorized as nominal and ordinal variables.
• Nominal variable is a variable whose data are non-numeric labels that do not reflect
quantitative information while ordinal variable has a clear ordering of the variables
and it has two or more categories which can be ranked.
• Independent variable is the cause variation or the one responsible for the conditions
that act on something else to bring out changes.
• Dependent variable shows the effect of manipulating or introducing the independent
variables.
• Intervening variable is a variable that helps explain the relationship between variables.
• Moderator variable affects the relationship between the variables by modifying the
effect of the intervening variable(s).
SUMMARY
• Controlled variable is a variable that must be kept constant for a fair test in
order to assess or clarify the relationship between two other variables.
• Extraneous variable are those factors in the research environment which may
have an effect on the dependent variable(s) but which are not controlled.