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Qualitative And Quantitative Variables. Short worksheet to practice identifying qualitative and quantitative variables. Qualitative Variables Variables that are not measurement variables. Their values may occur more than once for a set of data. Examples of quantitative variables include height and weight while examples of qualitative variables include hair color religion and gender.
Understanding the difference between qualitative vs quantitative data means understanding that qualitative variables are descriptive while quantitative variables are measured and given a numeric. Quantitative variables have numerical values. Measures of dispersion like the range interquartile range and standard deviation. In this way qualitative variables speak of properties that can not be measured with numbers and the quantitative ones include those to which a. Quantitative Variables Variables whose values result from counting or measuring something. A variable is called a quantitative variable when a characteristic can be expressed numerically such as age weight income or a number of children that is the variables that can be quantified or measured from some measurement device scales such as weighing machine thermometer and liquid measurement standardized container.
Quantitative data is analyzed using statistical analysis while qualitative data is analyzed by grouping it in terms of meaningful categories or themes.
Quantitative variables are often represented in units of measurement and qualitative variables are represented in non-numerical terms. It is also common to use quantitative variables in algebra. Examples of quantitative variables include height and weight while examples of qualitative variables include hair color religion and gender. Watch and learn now. Qualitativenominal variables name or label different categories of objects. Then take an online Business.