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For each of the following items from a public-opinion survey, indicate the level of measurement. a. In what country were you born? b. What is your age? c. How many years of school have you completed? d. What is your occupation? e. If you were asked to use one of these four names for your social class, in which would you say you belonged? Upper Middle Working Lower f. What is your grade-point average? $\mathrm{g} .$ What is your major? h. The only way to deal with the drug problem is to legalize all drugs. Strongly agree Agree Undecided Disagree Strongly disagree i. What is your astrological sign? j. How many brothers and sisters do you have? 

          For each of the following items from a public-opinion survey, indicate the level of measurement.
a. In what country were you born?
b. What is your age?
c. How many years of school have you completed?
d. What is your occupation?
e. If you were asked to use one of these four names for your social class, in which would you say you belonged? Upper Middle Working

Lower
f. What is your grade-point average?
$\mathrm{g} .$ What is your major?
h. The only way to deal with the drug problem is to legalize all drugs. Strongly agree Agree Undecided
Disagree Strongly disagree
i. What is your astrological sign?
j. How many brothers and sisters do you have?
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For each of the following items from a public-opinion survey, indicate the level of measurement. a. In what country were you born? b. What is your age? c. How many years of school have you completed? d. What is your occupation? e. If you were asked to use one of these four names for your social class, in which would you say you belonged? Upper Middle Working Lower f. What is your grade-point average? g. What is your major? h. The only way to deal with the drug problem is to legalize all drugs. Strongly agree Agree Undecided Disagree Strongly disagree i. What is your astrological sign? j. How many brothers and sisters do you have?
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00:01 In this video, we are going to focus on finding out that for each of the following items, that is taken from public opinion survey, we have to indicate the level of measurement.
00:11 So for the first part of this very question, we can say that the answer will be nominal.
00:17 That is nominal will be the level of measurement for this very given question.
00:23 And then here the second part is asking about age.
00:28 So it will be basically ratio.
00:31 And thus here we can say that third part will be basically interval.
00:37 And then the fourth part is asking about the occupation.
00:43 So it is here going to be nominal again.
00:47 And it can be written like this...
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