When including an item on a questionnaire that asks about marijuana use in the following way: never used, used 1 - 5 times, used 6 - 10 times, used more than ten times, this would be an example of what type of variable?

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This is an example of an ordinal variable as the responses can be ordered in terms of frequency of use. However, there is no consistent or meaningful numerical value between the categories.

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