Categorical variables are nominal or ordinal and cannot be described with mean or median.  The best central tendency for these variables are mode, which is the score that shows up most frequently (Frankfort-Nachmias, Leon-Guerrero, & Davis, 2020).  The categorical variable I selected is “country’s present economic condition compared to 12 months ago”, is mode is a tie for same and better all with the frequency of 2872 and a percent of 27.8%.  This variable has low variability.  Most of the participants believe there has been a small change or no change in economic conditions over the past 12 months.