Question

What kind of variable is this: Rural, Semi-rural, Urban.

Answer 1

Answer: Qualititative, Nominal and Categorical

Explanation:

The variable is qualitative since it does not involve numerical data (i.e. numbers). Rather we're dealing with names or labels.

Since names or labels are involved, and there isn't really inherent order to them, we consider this qualitative data to be nominal.

We can also consider it categorical since each label is a category.