J. D. Power and Associates conducts vehicle quality surveys to provide automobile manufacturers with consumer satisfaction information about their products (Vehicle Quality Survey, January 2010 ). Using a sample of vehicle owners from recent vehicle purchase records, the survey asks the owners a variety of questions about their new vehicles, such as those shown below. For each question, state whether the data collected are categorical or quantitative and indicate the measurement scale being used. a. What price did you pay for the vehicle?
b. How did you pay for the vehicle? (Cash, Lease, or Finance)
c. How likely would you be to recommend this vehicle to a friend? (Definitely Not, Probably Not, Probably Will, and Definitely Will)
d. What is the current mileage?
e. What is your overall rating of your new vehicle? A 110 -point scale, ranging from I for
unacceptable to 10 for truly exceptional, was used.

Categorical data includes

b. How did you pay for the vehicle? (Cash, Lease, or Finance)

c. How likely would you be to recommend this vehicle to a friend? (Definitely Not, Probably Not, Probably Will, and Definitely Will)

e. What is your overall rating of your new vehicle? A 1 to 10 point scale, ranging from I for unacceptable to 10 for truly exceptional, was used.

Quantitative data includes

a. What price did you pay for the vehicle?

d. What is the current mileage?

Step-by-step explanation:

Categorical data refers to the kind of data in which the variables are grouped based on a particular quality, ticking a particular box or satisfying some specific requirements.

It uses one or more qualitative property/properties to assign variables into a limited, usually fixed groups or categories. Note that the qualitative property might be a grouped data of numerical values. As long as there are easily separable and recognizable groups, it is categorical data.

This is also called qualitative data.

Quantitative data is a data that is strictly about numerical values. A dataset that consists of numerical values of the members of the dataset. Deals almost exclusively with numbers, usually ungrouped.

So, examining the given datasets one at a time

a. What price did you pay for the vehicle?

The answer to this question is a numerical value and for various customers, it builds up a dataset of strictly numerical values. Hence, this resulting data is a quantitative data.

b. How did you pay for the vehicle? (Cash, Lease, or Finance)

The answers to this question can only take 3 forms; Cash, Lease or Finance, indicating that all the variables in the dataset can only take on limited, fixed number of groups/categories. Hence, this dataset is a categorical data.

c. How likely would you be to recommend this vehicle to a friend? (Definitely Not, Probably Not, Probably Will, and Definitely Will)

The answers to this question too can take on 4 limited, fixed categories or groups, Hence, it's easy to see that this dataset is also categorical data.

d. What is the current mileage?

The answer to this question is a numerical value. Various answers from numerous persons would lead to a data of numbers. Hence, this is a quantitative data.

e. What is your overall rating of your new vehicle? A 1 to 10 point scale, ranging from I for unacceptable to 10 for truly exceptional, was used.

Limited, fixed categories or groups (10 groups) are also available for this data, hence, it is easily a categorical data.

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