Which characteristic best distinguishes quantitative data from qualitative data

Quantitative data and Qualitative data

Qualitative data are type of datas that were gathered through a descriptive either verbal or written means like:

Phenomenology

Case studies

Field studies

Archival studies

Qualitative studies

Surveys

While, quantitative data are data that can be used to infer facts or generalise into a populace using statistical methods from inferential statistics like t-test, anova, and other related methods.

These qualitative data can be made into a quantitative data by means of context analysis.