The reported unemployment is 5.5% of the population. what measurement scale is used to measure unemployment? nominal ordinal interval or ratio descriptive

The answer is interval or ratio. In interval level of measurement, the distances between have attributes does have a meaning. The best example to be used here is temperature. The distance from 40-50 is like the distance from 70-80. While in ratio level of measurement, there is constantly an absolute zero that is significant. Meaning, that you can build a meaningful fraction (or ratio) with a ratio variable.