The variable DEGREE is best described as:

A team of researchers is interested to know whether educational attainment affects the likelihood of owning or renting a home. They create a cross-tab with DWELOWN (Do you/Does your family) own your (home/apartment), pay rent, or what?”) and DEGREE (respondents’ highest educational degree), using a filter of “YEAR (2010-2014).” Figure 8.1 shows the resulting analysis.



Figure 8.1





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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