Question 10 A survey asked a sample of adults to report thei

Question 10

A survey asked a sample of adults to report their marital status. The possible answer choices were {single, married, divorced, widowed, other}. What kind of data are the survey responses?

normal

time series

ordinal

interval or ratio

nominal or categorical

Solution

the data of survey responses is categorical as the data is segmented , each portion belonging to a single category