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Types of Data

Data can be sorted into categories (qualitative) or numbers (quantitative), and numbers into discrete or continuous.

Sorting Data Into Types

Example 1 — classifying data

Classify "number of siblings a person has." 1 It is a number, so it is quantitative 2 It can only take whole-number values (0, 1, 2, ...) that you count exactly Answer: Quantitative, discrete

Practice

Classify "time taken to run 100 m ."

Sorting Data Into Types

Example 1 — classifying data

Classify "number of siblings a person has." 1 It is a number, so it is quantitative 2 It can only take whole-number values (0, 1, 2, ...) that you count exactly Answer: Quantitative, discrete

Practice

Classify "time taken to run 100 m ."