Marialexa conducts an economic study and asks her participants to provide information about their family incomes. First, they are asked to check one box from a list of three, indicating whether they consider themselves low-income, middle-income, or high-income. She refers to this as the self-identification variable. Then, they are asked (if they are willing) to provide their annual income in
dollars. She refers to this as the dollar-figure variable. The study is both confidential and anonymous, and most people answer both questions. Which of the following statements accurately describes the data Marialexa collects?
a. The self-identification data are ordinal data and the dollar-figure data are ratio data.
b. The self-identification data are nominal data and the dollar-figure data are ratio data.
c. The self-identification data and the dollar-figure data both are interval data.
d. The self-identification data and the dollar-figure data both are ratio data.
a
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