The human resources department at Bell Canada recently conducted an employee satisfaction survey of 100 of its employees. Data were collected on such variables as age, gender, marital status, current salary, level of overall satisfaction on a scale from 1 to 5, number of years with the company, and job title. Which of the variables would be classified as nominal data?

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Nominal data is data that can be placed in categories or groups that have no specific order or ranking. In this case, gender, marital status, and job title are all categories that do not have a specific ranking order.

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