Statistics- Weeks- Qualitative or Quantitative?

Question

Hi, I just started statistics and I would really appreciate some help with this practice problem.

Some information from 20 students was gathered about a workshop.
One of the items listed says 'Duration: 6 weeks'.
Would this be quantitative or qualitative data?
If it is quantitative, then would it be discrete or continuous?
Thanks so much.

I think it's quantitative and continuous.

Answer 1

How is the data presented?

Say you had three different workshops based on the same material and you are looking to study the effectiveness of the workshop. If you have a 5 week, 5.5 week and a 6 week workshop then you are qualifying the type of workshop, and there for it would be qualitative data.

Say there are exams done at the end of every week over some skill set and you want to know the average score for a student at the end of the six exams, then the 6 weeks is quantitative as it is used for finding a numeric value.

Time is continuous but if you set it into blocks it can be considered discrete as well. I would say in this case you have a continuous situation.

If you use the information to find a numeric value then you have quantitative data. If you use the information to qualify the type of workshop then it is qualitative data.

Answer 2

It involves numbers so it's quantitative.

It involves a workshop that presumably lasts an integer number of days or weeks. That is discrete. I don't think anyone would talk about a workshop lasting 4.5678 weeks.

I would say quantitative and discrete.