A company's database stores information about customer's locations using a coding secheme$.$ For example, the western region is stored as $"1",$ the eastern region as $"7,$ the northems rogion as $"3,$ and the southern region as $"4"$: When thls data is exported and shared with someone, these numberv are likely to be considered which of the following?

$$ Cryptic data values.

Mlsficlded data varlables.

Dirty data.

$$ Dummy variables.