Reporting Formats it could be a frequency distribution for nominal or categorical responses: No. of responses Percentage A. 10 10 B. 20 20 C. 30 30 D. 30 30 E. 10 10 or it could be "Score to approximate continuous rating" for certain ordinal data A=1 B=2 C=3 D=3 E=5 Mean: 3.2 Std. Dev.: .95 or it could be "Score as continuous variable" from the likert scale: 1= Poor 5= Excellent Mean = 3.2 Std. Dev. = .95