A survey includes a question about marital status that has the following responses: single,married,divorced,separated,or widowed. What is the scale of measurement for this question?
A)Ratio
B)Interval
C)Ordinal
D)Nominal

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The responses for the marital status question are categories or labels, which make this question an example of nominal measurement. Nominal data is used only to classify, describe, and count the number of occurrences of a category, without any numerical value or order.

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