1b.01 Know and apply terms used to describe different types of data that can be collected... Quiz: Pearson Edexcel Statistics, Unit 1

The 20 questions

1. Which term describes data that are counts of things, taking whole-number values?

   • Discrete
   • Continuous
   • Ordinal
   • Qualitative

2. Which term describes data measured on a scale, such as height?

   • Continuous
   • Discrete
   • Categorical
   • Raw

3. Which term describes data that are numbers, such as test scores?

   • Categorical
   • Qualitative
   • Quantitative
   • Ordinal

4. Which term describes data in a list of categories that can be ranked, such as small, medium, large?

   • Continuous
   • Categorical
   • Ordinal
   • Bivariate

5. Which term describes data collected before any processing, in the order it was recorded?

   • Raw data
   • Summary statistics
   • Bivariate data
   • Grouped data

6. Which term describes data that have been put into class intervals?

   • Grouped
   • Categorical
   • Raw
   • Ungrouped

7. Which term describes data recorded for two variables for each item?

   • Bivariate
   • Univariate
   • Ungrouped
   • Ordinal

8. Which term describes data with more than two variables recorded for each item?

   • Multivariate
   • Discrete
   • Bivariate
   • Qualitative

9. A survey records shoe size (for example 7, 8, 9). Which terms best describe it?

   • Quantitative and continuous
   • Quantitative and discrete
   • Categorical and grouped
   • Qualitative and ordinal

10. Times to run 100 m are recorded to hundredths of a second. What type of data is this?

    • Categorical
    • Continuous
    • Discrete
    • Ordinal

11. Opinions recorded from 'strongly disagree' to 'strongly agree' are best described as which?

    • Ordinal
    • Discrete quantitative
    • Continuous
    • Bivariate

12. A dataset records colour, height and weight for each pupil. Which description fits?

    • Grouped
    • Bivariate
    • Multivariate
    • Univariate

13. Ages are recorded in whole years (for example 16, 17, 18). Which description is most suitable?

    • Raw bivariate data
    • Continuous qualitative data
    • Ordinal categories
    • Discrete quantitative data

14. A table lists the number of people in age groups 0–9, 10–19 and 20–29. What type of data is this?

    • Ungrouped bivariate data
    • Qualitative data
    • Raw data
    • Grouped data

15. What type of data are pupils' favourite school subjects?

    • Quantitative discrete
    • Qualitative categorical
    • Quantitative continuous
    • Ordinal numerical

16. Grouping height measurements into intervals like 150-159 creates what type of data?

    • Categorical data
    • Raw data
    • Grouped data
    • Bivariate data

17. A survey recording goals scored and match results is an example of what data type?

    • Bivariate
    • Qualitative only
    • Univariate
    • Continuous

18. Raw numerical values such as 4, 9, 2, 7 and 4 are classified as what?

    • Grouped continuous
    • Ungrouped discrete
    • Bivariate data
    • Qualitative ordinal

19. What key feature distinguishes ordinal data from standard categorical data?

    • Numerical values
    • Continuous scale
    • Equal intervals
    • Meaningful order

20. Recording age group and car ownership for respondents produces what kind of data?

    • Univariate discrete
    • Bivariate continuous
    • Bivariate categorical
    • Qualitative univariate

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