In addition to his many other appointments, Mr. Badolato is the former president of both the New Jersey State Bar Association and the Essex County Bar Association. Mr. Badolato earned his law degree from Rutgers University and his undergraduate degree from Fairfield University.
The Fraud Examiner. Social Security Number Randomization. As of June 2011, the Social Security Administration administers Social Security numbers randomly. Prior to this change, Social Security numbers were based, at least partially, on the geographical location of the recipient. The Social Security program began in 1935 as part of the New Deal.
We cannot order Social Security numbers in any meaningful way. Some people have Social Security numbers that start with a higher number than others but there is no meaningful difference signified by this. So the Social Security number is a nominal level variable. Any time that you arbitrarily assign a person or another entity an identification number, the resulting variable will be nominal because the numbers d4o not signify anything important or meaningful. On the other hand, interval level variables are ordered.