What type of measurement includes categories such as minimum, medium, and maximum security?

The correct answer is ordinal level measures because this type of measurement involves ranking or ordering categories based on certain characteristics. In the context of prison security levels, categories such as minimum, medium, and maximum security can be ordered by the degree of restrictiveness or safety measures present.

Ordinal measurements allow for differentiation between levels, indicating that one category represents a higher or lower level of security compared to others. However, the exact differences between these security levels are not quantified or measured in a precise numeric way, which distinguishes it from interval and ratio levels.

In contrast, nominal level measures involve categorical data that do not have a specific order, while interval level measures provide information about the distance between values but not a true zero point, and ratio level measures include both order and an absolute zero, allowing for true ratios to be calculated. Thus, the security classifications clearly align with ordinal measurement due to their ranked nature.