Private School Universe Survey (PSS) - Standard errors for Number and percentage distribution of private school students, by grade level and NCES typology: United States, 2001

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Standard errors for number and percentage distribution of private school students, by grade level and NCES typology: United States, 2001-02 (see the data table)
NCES typology	Grade
	Kindergarten		First		Second		Third		Fourth
	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
Total	4,022.0	†	2,851.1	†	2,419.2	†	2,253.9	†	2,105.2	†

Catholic	1,142.3	0.29	1,171.0	0.26	1,029.8	0.23	1,065.9	0.20	1,042.4	0.20
Parochial	462.3	0.20	604.9	0.17	525.2	0.16	595.1	0.10	481.9	0.13
Diocesan	681.8	0.15	801.0	0.16	743.4	0.15	710.6	0.10	766.5	0.16
Private	432.0	0.08	151.0	0.03	178.4	0.04	214.6	0.00	132.0	0.03

Other religious	2,011.3	0.34	1,834.4	0.27	1,554.4	0.24	1,203.2	0.20	1,048.4	0.18
Conservative Christian	884.7	0.22	760.2	0.19	460.3	0.13	504.1	0.10	501.7	0.12
Affiliated	898.2	0.17	1,029.3	0.20	849.7	0.17	672.5	0.10	457.1	0.11
Unaffiliated	1,654.0	0.29	1,528.5	0.28	1,114.3	0.21	919.0	0.10	826.7	0.17

Nonsectarian	2,866.1	0.46	1,466.1	0.26	1,179.6	0.22	1,182.1	0.20	1,058.0	0.21
Regular	1,819.6	0.29	1,192.4	0.22	994.9	0.20	978.0	0.20	894.6	0.19
Special emphasis	1,185.8	0.20	386.4	0.07	399.7	0.08	419.1	0.00	410.2	0.09
Special education	215.7	0.04	279.0	0.06	273.0	0.06	275.6	0.00	273.3	0.06


NCES typology	Grade
	Fifth		Sixth		Seventh		Eighth		Ninth
	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
Total	2,049.3	†	2,013.0	†	1,747.9	†	1,787.1	†	1,934.9	†

Catholic	1,138.9	0.22	1,094.3	0.22	1,042.2	0.21	1,002.8	0.20	706.8	0.27
Parochial	618.2	0.15	412.4	0.13	402.4	0.11	346.1	0.11	689.6	0.19
Diocesan	763.4	0.16	828.5	0.17	819.1	0.18	830.0	0.18	#	0.12
Private	150.9	0.03	198.6	0.04	157.0	0.04	110.2	0.03	155.1	0.11

Other religious	1,036.6	0.19	1,051.5	0.21	1,070.4	0.22	1,015.1	0.23	1,055.3	0.20
Conservative Christian	506.0	0.13	366.8	0.12	453.3	0.14	526.8	0.16	718.1	0.17
Affiliated	448.0	0.11	606.2	0.14	301.6	0.07	525.7	0.13	442.3	0.13
Unaffiliated	859.4	0.18	772.7	0.16	807.2	0.17	709.1	0.16	633.9	0.17

Nonsectarian	1,017.0	0.21	1,118.7	0.23	951.1	0.21	1,029.6	0.23	1,137.6	0.26
Regular	881.0	0.19	927.7	0.19	802.5	0.18	878.7	0.20	921.2	0.22
Special emphasis	349.6	0.08	477.7	0.11	247.5	0.06	248.7	0.06	418.3	0.11
Special education	284.0	0.07	299.2	0.07	298.9	0.07	301.6	0.08	309.4	0.09


NCES typology	Grade
	Tenth		Eleventh		Twelfth		Ungraded
	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
Total	1,881.1	†	1,635.6	†	1,358.2	†	3,702.8	†

Catholic	677.0	0.28	533.2	0.25	443.5	0.20	1,210.3	1.10
Parochial	669.7	0.19	527.7	0.16	441.4	0.10	#	0.08
Diocesan	#	0.13	#	0.12	#	0.10	441.2	0.46
Private	99.1	0.11	76.9	0.10	43.4	0.00	1,127.0	1.09

Other religious	972.9	0.21	912.4	0.21	690.4	0.10	1,254.5	1.20
Conservative Christian	689.0	0.18	682.4	0.19	581.8	0.10	557.9	0.59
Affiliated	515.1	0.15	442.3	0.14	228.4	0.00	#	0.07
Unaffiliated	515.4	0.15	471.1	0.14	338.6	0.10	1,202.0	1.18

Nonsectarian	1,257.7	0.30	1,129.3	0.29	1,043.5	0.20	2,948.2	1.47
Regular	929.9	0.24	916.0	0.24	890.1	0.20	116.9	0.34
Special emphasis	642.2	0.19	426.6	0.13	219.0	0.00	2,598.9	2.02
Special education	330.6	0.10	341.0	0.11	321.3	0.10	949.5	1.21
† Not applicable.
# Rounds to zero.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 2001-2002.

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