1.72 A USA Today Snapshot from June 4, 2002, described how executives feel about looking for a new job while still employed. According to the Snapshot, a survey of 150 executives from the nation’s 1000 largest companies resulted in the following responses:

36% felt very comfortable, 33% felt somewhat comfortable, 26% felt somewhat uncomfortable, and 5% felt very uncomfortable. Would you classify the data collected and used to determine these percentages as qualitative (nominal or ordinal)

or quantitative (discrete or continuous)?