Question

A tax form asks people to identify their age, annual income, number of dependents, and social security number. For each of these four variables, identify the scale of measurement that probably is used and identify whether the variable is continuous or discrete.

Variable Nominal Ordinal Interval Ratio
Social security number
Annual income
Number of dependents
Variable Discrete Continuous
Social security number
Annual income
Number of dependents

Answer 1

Types of variables:

Continuous variable include: income

Discrete variable include: number of dependents

Scale of measurement:

Nominal data include: Social security number

There is no ordinal data included

There is no interval data included

Ratio data include: Annual income,

Number of dependents.

Step-by-step explanation:

Continuous variables are variables that are obtained by just counting, example: counting the number of times someone eats in a day.

Discrete variables are simply variables that are measured and are usually more precise than continuous variables, example: time, weight, length etc.

Nominal data are data types that are in the form of labels or names and do not have any particular order, example :social security number basically identifies a person and is not ranked or ordered in any way.

Ordinal data are data types that also in the form of names but with ranking and order.

Interval data are data types that rank and order data but with continuous measurement that may take on negative values, example measure of temperature.

Ratio data is same as interval data but does not take negative values, example we can not say that someone is -6 years old.