Question

In the employee record of a company, the gender of an employee is denoted by 1 and 0 for male and female employees respectively. This is an example of

• A. qualitative data
• B. quantitative data
• C. data that is both qualitative and quantitative
• D. data that is neither qualitative nor quantitative

Answer 1

The correct option is A qualitative data

Gender of a person is a qualitative attribute. Replacing the genders with 1 and 0 does not change the nature of the data.