When you enter data on a nominal variable like gender, you will normally give a number for each identified gender category (e.g., 1 for male, 2 for female, and 3 for transgender) as you enter the data, but these numbers are used just to differentiate the categories, and do not represent any order among categories of a variable.

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Nominal variables do not have any order or hierarchy, so the numbers assigned to each category are just for identification purposes. They do not indicate any level or amount of the variable.

When You Enter Data on a Nominal Variable Like Gender