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level of measurement

level of measurement Level of measurement refers to the kind of scale used to describe data.

Level of measurement refers to the kind of scale used to describe data. Common levels are nominal, which uses labels; ordinal, which ranks values without true quantitative spacing; interval, which has equal units but no true zero; and ratio, which has equal units and a true zero, allowing meaningful comparisons such as one value being twice another.