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 considered to be quantitative data?

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Age, number of years with the company, and current salary are all quantitative data as they can be measured and assigned numerical values. Gender, marital status, level of overall satisfaction on a scale from 1 to 5, and job title are all categorical data as they cannot be assigned numerical values in a meaningful way.

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