in SPSS the first column i have is ID (respondent ID) is this a nominal, ordinal or scale variable?
2006-08-06 22:08:15 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
It depends on the experiment, I think. If the order of the participants matters, then it is an ordinal variable. Otherwise, it is a nominal variable. I doubt it's a scale variable, because that does not seem to make any sense. I hope that's what you needed to know!
2006-08-06 22:27:01 · answer #1 · answered by anonymous 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Impossible to say with the information provided.
It is nominal if it ONLY corresponds to the respondents name, ie it serves only to identify the respondent.
If the ID is assigned based upon any numerically quantifiable factor such as the time the question was recieved or the repondents age, marital status, test score or anything like that then it ceases to be nominal.
It's very easy to assign labels based based on time by being lazy, simply calling the first subject 1, the second 2 and so forth. It is totally inappropriate to call such labels nominal. They are only nominal if they are independent of quantifiable factors.
2006-08-06 22:32:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-11 04:21:27 · answer #3 · answered by marianna 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋