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| Standard errors for number and percentage distribution of private school students, 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 | 26,746.8 | † | 14,519.5 | † | 3,438.2 | † | 15,716.5 | † | |||
| Religious orientation | 17,904.3 | 0.24 | 11,475.3 | 0.26 | 3,045.5 | 0.22 | 11,304.1 | 0.52 | |||
| Roman Catholic | 11,607.2 | 0.21 | 9,608.4 | 0.26 | 2,292.7 | 0.29 | 1,758.9 | 0.11 | |||
| African Methodist Episcopal | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Amish | 3,286.2 | 0.06 | 3,286.2 | 0.11 | 0.0 | 0.00 | # | # | |||
| Assembly of God | 75.1 | 0.01 | 75.1 | 0.01 | ‡ | ‡ | # | 0.02 | |||
| Baptist | 6,058.3 | 0.11 | 5,203.3 | 0.18 | # | # | 3,367.7 | 0.21 | |||
| Brethren | # | # | # | # | ‡ | ‡ | # | # | |||
| Calvinist | # | # | # | # | # | # | # | 0.01 | |||
| Christian (unspecified) | 10,249.1 | 0.17 | 3,160.8 | 0.12 | 1,916.3 | 0.22 | 9,530.2 | 0.46 | |||
| Church of Christ | # | # | # | # | ‡ | ‡ | # | 0.02 | |||
| Church of God | 1,512.1 | 0.03 | # | # | ‡ | ‡ | 1,512.1 | 0.09 | |||
| Church of God in Christ | # | # | # | # | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Disciples of Christ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Episcopal | 285.5 | 0.01 | # | 0.01 | 285.5 | 0.03 | # | 0.03 | |||
| Friends | # | # | # | # | ‡ | ‡ | # | 0.01 | |||
| Greek Orthodox | # | # | # | # | 0.0 | 0.00 | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Islamic | 494.2 | 0.01 | 494.2 | 0.02 | ‡ | ‡ | # | 0.01 | |||
| Jewish | 1,504.3 | 0.03 | 1,504.3 | 0.05 | # | 0.01 | # | 0.05 | |||
| Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod | 722.0 | 0.02 | 722.0 | 0.03 | # | 0.01 | # | # | |||
| Evangelical Lutheran Church In America | # | # | # | # | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod | 955.4 | 0.02 | 955.4 | 0.03 | # | # | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Other Lutheran | 96.6 | # | 96.6 | # | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Latter Day Saints | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | |||
| Mennonite | 651.8 | 0.01 | 651.8 | 0.02 | ‡ | ‡ | # | 0.01 | |||
| Methodist | # | # | # | # | ‡ | ‡ | # | 0.01 | |||
| Pentecostal | 2,509.3 | 0.05 | 277.9 | 0.01 | ‡ | ‡ | 2,485.8 | 0.15 | |||
| Presbyterian | # | # | # | # | ‡ | ‡ | # | 0.01 | |||
| Seventh-Day Adventist | 341.4 | 0.01 | 341.4 | 0.01 | # | # | # | 0.01 | |||
| Other | 1,530.7 | 0.03 | 1,267.4 | 0.04 | 514.9 | 0.06 | 657.6 | 0.05 | |||
| Nonsectarian | 15,869.1 | 0.24 | 8,303.5 | 0.26 | 2,001.1 | 0.22 | 11,019.0 | 0.52 | |||
| † 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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