Metadata - Report label and scale type

Metadata aims to classify data, which will enhance data analysis and customer experience, by providing more meaningful reports and charts. The data will be classified in terms of scale type which will help to get the correct statistics. This feature is available only to our enterprise customers. By default, the scale type will be set to “undefined” for applicable question types.

• Nominal - Categorical Scales
Here the numbers are used merely as names and have no quantitative value. Nominal scales are the lowest levels of measurement. It is a naming scale and is used with categorical data. Example: place of birth, political orientation, gender, types of sports
• Nominal - Numeric Scales
Nominal numeric is the same as nominal categorical; the only difference is that numbers are used instead of names to represent categories. Example: number of children, number of cars you own
• Interval Scales
The data with answer options having equal intervals. Interval data carries the assumption that the differences between points on the scale are all equal. That is to say, using the 5-point Likert scale as an interval scale assumes that the difference between strongly agree and agree is the same relative difference as between neutral and agree. Example: Basic matrix with satisfaction, star rating scale
• Undefined
By default all the questions will be set to Undefined.

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Question types with categorical nature can only be changed from undefined to nominal and question types with interval nature can be changed from undefined to interval. There are a few question types, such as rank order, that do not fall into any category; such questions are set to undefined, and the scale type cannot be changed.

When the scale type is changed from undefined to nominal numeric or nominal categorical, additional column of cumulative percentage will be added in the data table.

Report label provides an ability to the user to give a short name to the questions. These short labels, if used will reflect in the dashboard making it easier to read.