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NAEP Technical DocumentationRegion of the Country

The region of the country variable (CENSREG) is defined as one of the four groups of Census-defined regions—Northeast, South, Midwest, and West—as shown in the table below. All 50 states and the District of Columbia are listed.

Census regions used in the National Assessment of Educational Progress, by state: 2003

Northeast	South	Midwest	West
Connecticut	Alabama	Illinois	Alaska
Maine	Arkansas	Indiana	Arizona
Massachusetts	Delaware	Iowa	California
New Hampshire	District of Columbia	Kansas	Colorado
New Jersey	Florida	Michigan	Hawaii
New York	Georgia	Minnesota	Idaho
Pennsylvania	Kentucky	Missouri	Montana
Rhode Island	Louisiana	Nebraska	Nevada
Vermont	Maryland	North Dakota	New Mexico
	Mississippi	Ohio	Oregon
	North Carolina	South Dakota	Utah
	Oklahoma	Wisconsin	Washington
	South Carolina		Wyoming
	Tennessee
	Texas
	Virginia
	West Virginia
SOURCE: Office of Business Economics, U.S. Department of Commerce. 2003. Current Population Survey, Washington, DC.

Prior to 2003, the region variable (REGION) was defined as one of the four groups of geographical regions listed in the table below: Northeast, Southeast, Central, and West. All 50 states and the District of Columbia were included. Although the Census was one source of information for this variable, it was not the only source, so, to bring NAEP into line with other federal data collections, beginning with the 2003 assessment, NAEP began using the Census as its sole source for this variable.

NAEP geographic regions used in the National Assessment of Educational Progress, by state: Various years 1990-2002

Northeast	Southeast	Central	West
1 The part of Virginia that is included in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan statistical area is included in the Northeast region; the remainder of the state is included in the Southeast region. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), various years, 1990-2002 NAEP Assessments.
Connecticut	Alabama	Illinois	Alaska
Delaware	Arkansas	Indiana	Arizona
District of Columbia	Florida	Iowa	California
Maine	Georgia	Kansas	Colorado
Maryland	Kentucky	Michigan	Hawaii
Massachusetts	Louisiana	Minnesota	Idaho
New Hampshire	Mississippi	Missouri	Montana
New Jersey	North Carolina	Nebraska	Nevada
New York	South Carolina	North Dakota	New Mexico
Pennsylvania	Tennessee	Ohio	Oklahoma
Rhode Island	Virginia1	South Dakota	Oregon
Vermont	West Virginia	Wisconsin	Texas
Virginia1			Utah
			Washington
			Wyoming

To view the data for individual years and subjects, see the NAEP Data Tool.

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