Fatherâs Day has a healthier meaning. June 12, 2012 Families, Fleet and the Fleet Marine Force, Force health and safety Comments Off on Fatherâs Day has a healthier meaning. Next week we kick-off National Menâs Health Week. Todayâs blog comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a teaser for next week.
Numeric variables. A numeric variable, also known as a quantitative variable, is one that can assume a number of real valuesâsuch as age or number of people in a household. However, not all variables described by numbers are considered numeric.
Some individuals will have an income of 25.000 dollars a year, and others 50.000. Intervals variables are very usefull to compare the size of social inequalities. Another examples of interval variables would be: gross domestic product, number of siblings or the number of years studied. But, in sociology, due to the nature of its object of study, it is more common to use categorical variables, and then recoded it into a quantitative variable. Views.