Alicia wants to test the associations between SES and education for program recepients. One of the variables that approximates SES is household income. She designates family income as representing income per year and the variable has values of 1 = $0 to $25,000, 2 = $25, 001 to $50,000, 3 = $50,001 to $80,000, 4 = $80,001 to $100,000, and 5 = above $100,000. What is the level of measurement of the variable household income?

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Household income is an example of an ordinal level of measurement because the categories have a meaningful order, but the difference between categories is not necessarily equal (e.g. the difference between $0-$25,000 and $25,001-$50,000 is not equivalent to the difference between $50,001-$80,000 and $80,001-$100,000).

Alicia Wants to Test the Associations Between SES and Education