The variable FECHLD is best described as:
Figure 7.1
A team of researchers is interested to know whether beliefs about working mothers are related to respondents’ gender, and how these beliefs have changed over recent years. They make a cross-tab of FECHLD by YEAR, using SEX as a control variable. The variable FECHLD corresponds to the survey question, “Please tell me whether you strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly disagree with it… A working mother can establish just as warm and secure a relationship with her children as a mother who does not work.”
a. a dummy variable.
b. a categorical variable.
c. an ordinal variable.
d. an interval-ration level variable.
c. an ordinal variable.
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