I wanted to know can I take education as an ordinal variable in my analysis. For example Olevels as 1, A levels as 2, Bachelors as 3, Masters as 4, PHD as 5 and then run a simple linear regression? Is this acceptable and does it make sense? To clarify education is an independent variable
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$\begingroup$ Is education an outcome or explanatory variable? $\endgroup$– dimitriyCommented May 6, 2021 at 21:50
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$\begingroup$ Independent variable...sorry for missing that crucial detail $\endgroup$– Ahsan TechCommented May 6, 2021 at 22:03
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$\begingroup$ stats.stackexchange.com/search?q=ordinal+variable+regression have you browsed other questions with these keywords? $\endgroup$– AdamOCommented May 6, 2021 at 22:16
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There is a very nice summary of what one can do with categorical variables at the UCLA Stats Consulting site.
Breaking it up into dummy variables is probably the most frequently used approach. Here's an answer that gets into the interpretation.
