A company was studying the demographics of their customers. As part of the study they collected the following variables: gender, marital status, credit rating (low, medium, high), annual income, and age. Label the variable marital status as qualitative or quantitative, discrete or continuous, and nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio.
A) qualitative, discrete, nominal
B) qualitative, continuous, Ordinal
C) quantitative, discrete, nominal
D) quantitative, continuous, ratio

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Marital status is a qualitative variable because it can't be measured using numbers. It is also discrete because one can only have a limited number of possible categories. Finally, it is nominal because there is no inherent order or ranking to the categories (i.e. being married does not necessarily imply that one is better or worse off than being single).

A Company Was Studying the Demographics of Their Customers