Types of quantitative data

There are four main types of Quantitative research: Descriptive, Correlational, Causal-Comparative/Quasi-Experimental, and Experimental Research. attempts to establish cause- effect relationships among the variables. These types of design are very similar to true experiments, but with some key differences.

Qualitative data is of two types, namely; nominal data and ordinal data. Qualitative data sometimes takes up numeric values but doesn’t have numeric properties. This is a common case in ordinal data.

Quantitative data is defined as the value of data in the form of counts or numbers where each data-set has an unique numerical value associated with it. Quantitative data is usually collected for statistical analysis using surveys, polls or questionnaires sent across to a specific section of a population.