Nominal Data and Ordinal Data

Nominal Data and Ordinal Data 

Main characteristic of qualitative data is data is gotten by the way of calculating, so that will not have decimal value. Example of qualitative data is gender data, blood group data, residence data, or work type data.

For example, gender data contains man and woman, contents of data is what is man amounts and woman. For the purpose will be done counting process, for example 15 mans and 25 womens. Here result of counting is not possibly is gotten number 15,4 mans and 25,1 womens, because man amounts and woman doesn't have decimal.

This elementary difference with quantitative data which able to have decimal value, because process gets data by the way of measuring.