15 Examples of Nominal Qualitative Variables

The nominal qualitative variables are those variables that indicate attributes or qualities, that are expressed in words and whose categories are not ordered according to a hierarchical criterion. For example: The types of climate of a country, whose values ​​or categories are tropical climate, dry climate, temperate climate, continental climate and polar climate.

In statistical investigations, the variables are the characteristics that are analyzed of a population and they are classified into two groups according to what types of values ​​they acquire:

In addition to the nominal variables, there are other types of qualitative variables, the ordinal ones (they differ from the nominal ones because take values ​​that are ordered hierarchically) and the dichotomous ones (they are distinguished from the nominal ones because they can only acquire two values).

Characteristics of nominal qualitative variables

Examples of nominal qualitative variables

1. people's blood type. Its values ​​are A, B, AB and O.
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2. sports played by young people. Their values ​​are soccer, basketball, volleyball, etc.
3. The neighborhoods in which people live. Its values ​​are San Ángel, Garibaldi, San Pedro Atocpan, among others.
4. The museum rooms. Its values ​​are contemporary art room, Renaissance art room, ancient art room, among others.
5. The economic activities of a country. Its values ​​are agriculture, livestock, industry, commerce, mining, etc.
6. The types of podcasts. Its values ​​are cooking podcast, current affairs podcast, movie podcast, etc.
7. The chosen university courses. Its values ​​are economics, medicine, law, literature, architecture, physics, etc.
8. computer brands. Its values ​​are Samsung, Lenovo, Asus, Apple, etc.
9. The types of trees in an area. Its values ​​are pine, acacia, eucalyptus and ficus.
10. high school subjects. His values ​​are mathematics, history, physics, English, biology, among others.
11. The colors used to produce clothing. Its values ​​are red, gray, white, black, violet, fuchsia, blue, etc.
12. The types of private transport. Its values ​​are car, truck, bicycle, motorcycle, etc.
13. The political parties that citizens vote for. Its values ​​are the names of the various parties.
14. Hobbies. Their values ​​are singing, painting, playing an instrument, swimming, etc.
15. tools used in construction. Its values ​​are tape measure, wrench, level, clamp, handsaw, screwdriver, etc.

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