Basically, qualitative data is something that you can feel or observe. (Such as, this cloth is soft, or this thing is heavy.) Quantitative data, on the other hand, is something that you can measure....
An example of qualitative data is asking a small, select, group of engineering students whether they know how to work an AutoCAD system, then get them to show you. Quantitive is pretty much the...
The way I remember it is that Quantitative data includes quantities... numbers.
3.4 m, or 57 degrees Celsius
Qualitative data describes qualities... descriptions.
hot, blue, longer.
Quantitative, if you're counting the numbers of males and females for any survey or question.
It is qualitive if you are using it in the context "Jim is a male." That doesn't tell you how many....