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Last summer, one of your friends was very bored. In order to keep herself engage

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Question

Last summer, one of your friends was very bored. In order to keep herself engaged, she thought of undertaking a statistics project. Hence, she started surveying people around the ASU campus and collected information on their gender, age (in years), monthly household income, and the number of hours they spent in front of the television every day. However, she soon felt that statistics was driving her to further boredom. Thus, she stopped after collecting 5 observations. Which variable in her data set depicts qualitative data?

Observation No.

Gender

Age

TV Hours

HH Income

1

M

7

0.5

0

2

M

48

4

5,000

3

F

55

5

7,000

4

F

60

6

7,100

5

M

45

4

4,500

Select one:

a. Gender

b. Age

c. TV Hours

d. All of the above

Observation No.

Gender

Age

TV Hours

HH Income

1

M

7

0.5

0

2

M

48

4

5,000

3

F

55

5

7,000

4

F

60

6

7,100

5

M

45

4

4,500

Explanation / Answer

Defination of qualitative data is as follows:-

Data cannot be expressed as a number. Data that represent nominal scales such as gender, socieo economic status, religious preference are usually considered to be qualitative data.

Answer:- a. Gender