Levels of Measurement Worksheet What is the level of measurement for each of the
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Question
Levels of Measurement Worksheet
What is the level of measurement for each of these variables?
_________1. NFL football players are asked: What is your height in inches?
_________2. Teachers at a local elementary school are asked: What is your age in years?
_________3. Everyone at the Dept. of Social Work are asked: Please identify your eye color.
Blue Brown Green Hazel Other
_________4. SWR270 Students are asked: What percentage did you get on the midterm exam?
_________5. A meteorologist records of average Fahrenheit temperature daily for a year.
_________6. EDK823 Students are asked: What is the weight in pounds of your pet?
_________7. Please rank the following cars according to expense where 1=Most expensive and 5=Least expensive. ____Ford Focus ____Chevy Camaro ____Honda Civic ____Cadillac Escalade ___Ford F150
_________8. What is your gender? Female Male Transgender
_________9. What is your ethnicity? White Black Hispanic Other
_________10. All UM Dearborn Students are asked: Are you married? Yes No
_________11. Please list your annual income in dollars.
_________12. Please rate your satisfaction with your current job on a scale where
1=highly satisfied, 3=neutral, and 5=not satisfied at all.
_________13. You are a nurse who is recording blood pressures for every patient in a hospital.
_________14. Number of classes missed by all Health Policy, Criminal Justice, Behavioral Science, and Sociology students since 1970.
Explanation / Answer
1. Interval
2.Interval
3. Nominal
4. Ordinal
5. Ordinal
6.Interval
7. Ordinal
8. nominal
9. Nominal
10. Ordinal
11. Interval
12. Ordinal
13. Interval
14. Ordinal