SPSS Measurable Level
Statistical variables can be measured as nominal, ordinal or
scale. Variable is measured
- Nominal: when its values represent categories that does not belong to a ranking like zip code, department ID religion.
- Ordinal: when its values represent categories that belong to a ranking like degree of satisfaction (dissatisfied to highly satisfied) or attitude scores.
- Scale: when its values represent ordered categories or meaningful metric like age or income
