Employees at a large company are surveyed about their health insurance status. Employees are coded as...

Employees at a large company are surveyed about their health insurance status. Employees are coded as “11” if health insurance is obtained through the company’s benefit program, “22” if health insurance is obtained from another source (such as through a spouse’s employment benefit program), or “00” if the employee does not have health insurance. This variable is:

a. numerical

b. categorical

c. all of the answer options are correct

d. quantitively categorical

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b. categorical

Here, even if numbers are used as codes to categorize people based on their health insurance status, the variable 'health insurance status' is categorical. The numerical value of the number is meaningless because it is just a representative of a category.

orchestra answered 1 year ago

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