Chapter 1, Lesson 6, What is Categorical Data?
Katie is collecting data about the number of people that are interested in different dance styles. After passing out a survey, she has gathered the following information: Style / Number of people interested in this style Ballet / 20 Jazz /12 Hip Hop / 8 Lyrical / 26 Tap / 10 What type of data did Katie collect?
Categorical
Samantha is gathering information about how many calories the athletes on her team consume during game week. Which answer correctly indicates how the data should be analyzed for both categorical and quantitative research?
Categorical Data: 1,000-1,200 cal; 1,201-1,400 cal; 1,401-1,600 cal, etc. Quantitative Data: All individual caloric consumption amounts are collected.
What is data that is collected in groups or topics, where the number of events in each group is counted numerically?
Categorical data
One trick to finding out if information is categorical or quantitative is to analyze the answer to the question. Which of the following is TRUE:
If the answer to the question is numerical, then the information is quantitative. If the answer to the question is a characteristic, preference, etc., then the information is categorical.
David wants to collect information about his friends and how many siblings they each have. David has eight friends. How should he collect this data? Why?
Quantitatively: Since David isn't dealing with a large amount of information, he can simply ask each friend and analyze the data quantitatively.
Categorical data
is data that is collected in groups or topics; the number of events in each group is counted numerically.
