An ordinal variable is a categorical variable for which the possible values are ordered. Ordinal variables can be considered “in between” categorical and quantitative variables. Example: Educational level might be categorized as. 1: Elementary school education.

What are examples of ordinal variables?

Examples of ordinal variables include: socio economic status (“low income”,”middle income”,”high income”), education level (“high school”,”BS”,”MS”,”PhD”), income level (“less than 50K”, “50K-100K”, “over 100K”), satisfaction rating (“extremely dislike”, “dislike”, “neutral”, “like”, “extremely like”).

What type of data is ordinal data?

Ordinal data is a statistical type of quantitative data in which variables exist in naturally occurring ordered categories. The distance between two categories is not established using ordinal data.