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... > contexts > population characteristics > health > public health > epidemiology > statistics and research methods > measurement > levels of measurement
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... > social science subjects > psychology > cross-cultural psychology > multicultural psychology > measurement > levels of measurement

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levels of measurement  

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  • Phenomena that are of interest to the sociologist come in a variety of shapes that are more or less amenable to measurement. A common way of sorting these is as nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio level data. [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Sociology; Measurement, Levels of]

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