Quantitative data involves numbers, either measurable or countable values.
Qualitative data involves something descriptive like color or shape.
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Qualitative and quantitative data are both 2 important types of data. Qualitative data is data based on observation and description. An easy way to remember this, Qualitative ---> QUALity. Examples of qualitative data are when you record colors, smells, textures, etc... Quantitative data is based on numerical values. An easy way to remember this, Quantitative ---> QUANTity. An example of quantitative data are any type of numerical values.
If you mean qualitative and quantitative data, then data would be dealing with numbers to describe a statistical analysis whereas qualitative represents things that cannot be expressed as numbers such as color.
Quantitative data describes the measurable attributes of the subject. Qualitative data describes the remaining non-measurable but perceivable attributes of the subject
They are methods for analysing statistics in which that data are, respectively, qualitative and quantitative.
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