Hands-On Exploratory Data Analysis with Python

Nominal

These are practiced for labeling variables without any quantitative value. The scales are generally referred to as labels. And these scales are mutually exclusive and do not carry any numerical importance. Let's see some examples:

• What is your gender?
• Male
• Female
• Third gender/Non-binary
• I prefer not to answer
• Other
• Other examples include the following:
• The languages that are spoken in a particular country
• Biological species
• Parts of speech in grammar (noun, pronoun, adjective, and so on)
• Taxonomic ranks in biology (Archea, Bacteria, and Eukarya)

Nominal scales are considered qualitative scales and the measurements that are taken using qualitative scales are considered qualitative data. However, the advancement in qualitative research ...