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| Standard errors for number and percentage distribution of private schools, by school level and religious orientation of school: United States, 2001-02 (see the data table) | |||||||||||
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| Religious or nonsectarian category | Total | Elementary | Secondary | Combined | |||||||
| Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | ||||
| Total | 336.4 | † | 184.6 | † | 62.7 | † | 232.5 | † | |||
| Religious orientation | 232.9 | 0.50 | 132.6 | 0.58 | 21.1 | 1.09 | 201.8 | 0.93 | |||
| Roman Catholic | 48.6 | 0.30 | 38.0 | 0.40 | 6.3 | 0.95 | 21.2 | 0.22 | |||
| African Methodist Episcopal | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Amish | 94.5 | 0.31 | 94.5 | 0.52 | 0.0 | 0.00 | # | 0.01 | |||
| Assembly of God | 3.8 | 0.02 | 3.8 | 0.02 | ‡ | ‡ | # | 0.06 | |||
| Baptist | 139.4 | 0.45 | 59.0 | 0.33 | # | 0.04 | 124.3 | 1.10 | |||
| Brethren | # | # | # | # | ‡ | ‡ | # | 0.01 | |||
| Calvinist | # | 0.01 | # | # | # | 0.01 | # | 0.01 | |||
| Christian (unspecified) | 129.4 | 0.39 | 56.3 | 0.33 | 0.9 | 0.17 | 117.2 | 1.05 | |||
| Church of Christ | # | 0.01 | # | # | ‡ | ‡ | # | 0.02 | |||
| Church of God | 49.4 | 0.17 | # | # | ‡ | ‡ | 49.4 | 0.53 | |||
| Church of God in Christ | # | # | # | # | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Disciples of Christ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Episcopal | 4.9 | 0.02 | # | 0.01 | 4.9 | 0.19 | # | 0.02 | |||
| Friends | # | # | # | # | ‡ | ‡ | # | 0.01 | |||
| Greek Orthodox | # | # | # | # | 0.0 | 0.00 | ‡ | # | |||
| Islamic | 10.3 | 0.04 | 10.3 | 0.06 | ‡ | ‡ | # | 0.02 | |||
| Jewish | 6.6 | 0.04 | 6.6 | 0.04 | # | 0.16 | # | 0.04 | |||
| Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod | 9.9 | 0.05 | 9.9 | 0.08 | # | 0.06 | # | # | |||
| Evangelical Lutheran Church In America | # | # | # | 0.01 | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod | 32.0 | 0.11 | 32.0 | 0.18 | # | 0.02 | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Other Lutheran | 6.0 | 0.02 | 6.0 | 0.03 | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Latter Day Saints | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Mennonite | 37.0 | 0.13 | 37.0 | 0.21 | ‡ | ‡ | # | 0.05 | |||
| Methodist | # | 0.01 | # | # | ‡ | ‡ | # | 0.02 | |||
| Pentecostal | 82.1 | 0.28 | 13.7 | 0.08 | ‡ | ‡ | 80.9 | 0.88 | |||
| Presbyterian | # | 0.01 | # | 0.01 | ‡ | ‡ | # | 0.02 | |||
| Seventh-Day Adventist | 24.1 | 0.09 | 24.1 | 0.14 | # | 0.05 | # | 0.06 | |||
| Other | 45.1 | 0.15 | 13.6 | 0.08 | 19.5 | 0.69 | 36.3 | 0.39 | |||
| Nonsectarian | 193.1 | 0.50 | 121.7 | 0.58 | 47.7 | 1.09 | 96.5 | 0.93 | |||
| † Not applicable. | |||||||||||
| # Rounds to zero. | |||||||||||
| ‡ Reporting standards not met. | |||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 2001-2002. | |||||||||||
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