Question

Statistical data can be categorised into

• A. Numerical data
• B. Categorical data
• C. Both numerical and categorical data
• D. None of the above

Answer 1

The correct option is C Both numerical and categorical data

Lets take an example, the data depicting the number of pets that a group of $5$ friends have can be represented as,


This data is an example of numerical data.

Now, consider another example which depicts the colour of eyes of different students of a class.


This data forms an example of categorical data.

Since both the above examples gives information in the form of data and shows variability in the answers collected, thus both numerical and categorical data forms the part of statistical data.

So, option (c) is correct.