SOWK 3070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nominal Level
26 Nov 2018
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Level of measurements: important guidelines for measurements, levels of measurements, relationships with a data analysis. There are four levels of measurement: nominal level, ordinal level, interval level, ratio level. Number one would be the lowest and number 4 would be the highest. Each item in the measurement should be: mutually exclusive (exclusiveness, completeness (exhaustiveness) Values are arbitrary, but each category is distinct and exclusive. Would you be interested in working with older adults: yes, no. How often do you come to the school of social work at york university this fall: more than three times a week, twice a week, once a week, occasionally, never. Ordinal level of measurement/ordinal variable: rating scales 1. What do you think are the monthly operating costs for the health for all" program: ,000 1,499, 1,500 1,999, 2,000 2,400, 2,500 2,999. Complete absence of the variable can occur e. g. income, frequency of successful actions, population, age.
