When a survey uses the responses strongly disagree, disagree, neutral, agree, strongly agree, what type of data are collected?
A) ordinal data
B) nominal data
C) cross-sectional data
D) time series data
E) quantitative data

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The responses in the survey are ordered from strongly disagree to strongly agree, therefore the data collected is considered to be ordinal. This means that the responses have a ranking or ordering, but the distance between each response is not necessarily equal.

When a Survey Uses the Responses Strongly Disagree, Disagree, Neutral