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  Unadjusted1   Statistically adjusted1
Percent SE of percent   Percent SE of percent
Total 99.9 0.03   99.9 0.03
Public school 90.2 0.27   89.0 0.32
Assigned 79.1 0.44   78.1 0.46
Chosen 11.1 0.38   10.9 0.37
Private school 7.6 0.25   7.5 0.25
Homeschooled2 2.1 0.17   3.4 0.23
1 The sum of the percent for public school, private school, and homeschooled does not total 100 percent due to 0.11 percent of cases that are not included in the total because parents identified the children as homeschooled, though they do not meet the NCES definition of homeschooler as shown in in the footnote below.
2 Homeschooled students are school-age children who receive instruction at home instead of at a public or private school either all or most of the time. Excludes students who were enrolled in public or private school more than 25 hours per week and students who were homeschooled primarily because of temporary illness. A change in the NHES design between 2007 and 2012 resulted in measurement error leading to an undercount of the total number of homeschooled students based on the PFI-Homeschool questionnaire alone. The statistically adjusted estimates in this table reflect PFI-Enrolled respondents who indicated that the sampled child was homeschooled for some classes or subjects (303 children), plus a statistical adjustment to the sample weights for those children that accounts for the error and makes the 2012 totals more comparable to previous years.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Parent and Family Involvement in Education Survey of the National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES), 2012.