This document lists 10 items from a public opinion survey and asks to identify the level of measurement and whether each variable is discrete or continuous. Most of the variables are either nominal or ordinal and discrete, including country of birth, age, years of school, occupation, social class, astrological sign, and number of siblings. Variables that are continuous and ratio include years of school, GPA, and number of siblings. The drug legalization question is ordinal and continuous.
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1. For each of the following items from a public opinion survey, indicate the level of measurement
and whether the variable will be discrete or continuous. ( Hint: Remember the only interval-ratio
level variables can be continuous). a. In what country were you born?__________; b. What is
your age? ______ ; c. How many years of school have you completed?______; d. What is your
occupation? _________; e. If you were asked to use one of these four names for your social
class, which would you day you belonged to? _____ Upper, _____ Middle, ______Working,
______Lower; f. What is your grad point average? ______; g. What is your major?
___________; h. The only way to deal with the drug problem is to legalize all drugs ____
Strongly agree, ____ Agree, _____ Undecided, _____ Disagree, _____ Strongly Agree; i. What
is your astrological sign? ______, j. How many brothers and sisters do you have? __________
Solution
a)discrete b)discrete c)discrete d)continuous e)continuous f)continuous
g)continuous h)continuous i)continuous j)discrete