Definition:Categorical Data

Definition

Categorical data is a count of the number of units falling into one or more category.

Examples

Human Population

Examples of categorical data for a population of humans are:

• Gender (male, female)
• Marital status (single, married, divorced, widowed)

and so on.

Also see

• Definition:Categorical Variable

• Results about categorical data can be found here.

Sources

• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): categorical data