Members of the accounting department's clerical staff were asked to rate their supervisor's leadership style as either (1)authoritarian or (2)participatory.This is an example of _______.
A)interval level data
B)ordinal level data
C)nominal level data
D)ratio level data
E)relative level data

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The data collected from the survey is categorical, as it involves categorizing the leadership style into one of two non-numeric categories: authoritarian or participatory. This type of data is known as nominal level data, which is used for labeling variables without any quantitative value.

Members of the Accounting Department's Clerical Staff Were Asked to Rate