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Student Absenteeism
Table S24-1.  Standard errors for the percentage distribution of 4th- and 8th-grade students by the number of days of school they reported missing in the previous month: Various years, 1994–2005

  Grade 4
  Grade 8
      3 or more days
      3 or more days
Year 0 days 1–2 days Total 3–4 days 5 or more
days
  0 days 1–2 days Total 3–4 days 5 or more
days

1994 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.3   0.8 0.7 0.9 0.6 0.4
1998 0.9 0.7 0.6 0.4 0.4   0.9 0.9 0.7 0.5 0.3
2002 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.1   0.3 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2
2003 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1   0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1
2005 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1   0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), various years, 1994–2005 Reading Assessments, previously unpublished tabulation (December 2005).

 
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