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1 Total includes other racial/ethnic groups not separately shown.
NOTE: Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Data in this figure are considered experimental and do not meet NCES standards for response rates. The survey question refers to enrollment at any time during the 2020–21 school year.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Household Pulse Survey, collection period of September 2 to 14, 2020. See Digest of Education Statistics 2020, table 218.80.
NOTE: Although rounded numbers are displayed, the figures are based on unrounded data. Data in this figure are considered experimental and do not meet NCES standards for response rates. The survey question refers to enrollment at any time during the 2020–21 school year.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Household Pulse Survey, collection period of September 2 to 14, 2020. See Digest of Education Statistics 2020, table 218.80.
1 Total includes other racial/ethnic groups not separately shown.
NOTE: Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Although rounded numbers are displayed, the figures are based on unrounded data. Data in this figure are considered experimental and do not meet NCES standards for response rates. The survey question refers to enrollment at any time during the 2020–21 school year.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Household Pulse Survey, collection period of September 2 to 14, 2020. See Digest of Education Statistics 2020, table 218.85.
NOTE: Although rounded numbers are displayed, the figures are based on unrounded data. Data in this figure are considered experimental and do not meet NCES standards for response rates. The survey question refers to enrollment at any time during the 2020–21 school year.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Household Pulse Survey, collection period of September 2 to 14, 2020. See Digest of Education Statistics 2020, table 218.85.
! Interpret data with caution. The coefficient of variation (CV) for this estimate is between 30 and 50 percent.
1 Total includes other racial/ethnic groups not separately shown.
NOTE: Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Although rounded numbers are displayed, the figures are based on unrounded data. Data in this figure are considered experimental and do not meet NCES standards for response rates. The survey question refers to enrollment at any time during the 2020–21 school year.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Household Pulse Survey, collection period of September 2 to 14, 2020. See Digest of Education Statistics 2020, table 218.90.
NOTE: Although rounded numbers are displayed, the figures are based on unrounded data. Data in this figure are considered experimental and do not meet NCES standards for response rates. The survey question refers to enrollment at any time during the 2020–21 school year.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Household Pulse Survey, collection period of September 2 to 14, 2020. See Digest of Education Statistics 2020, table 218.90.
1 Melvin, S.C., Wiggins, C., Burse, N., Thompson, E., and Monger, M. (2020, July). The Role of Public Health in COVID-19 Emergency Response Efforts From a Rural Health Perspective (Preventing Chronic Disease, Vol. 17, E70), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved February 9, 2021, from https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2020/20_0256.htm#T2_down. Blumenthal, D., Fowler, E.J., Abrams, M., and Collins, S.R. (2020, July). COVID-19—Implications for the Health Care System, New England Journal of Medicine, 383, 1438–1488. Retrieved February 9, 2021, from https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmsb2021088.
2 Handwerker, E.W., Meyer, P.B., Piacentini, J., Schultz, M., and Sveikauskas, L. (2020, December). Employment Recovery in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Monthly Labor Review), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved February 9, 2021, from https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2020/article/employment-recovery.htm.
3 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2021, January 27), Quarterly Data Series on Business Employment Dynamics News Release (Economic News Release). Retrieved February 9, 2021, from https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cewbd.htm.
4 Education Week. (2020, March 6). Map: Coronavirus and School Closures in 2019–2020. Retrieved February 9, 2021, from https://www.edweek.org/leadership/map-coronavirus-and-school-closures-in-2019-2020/2020/03.
5 U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, The Condition of Education 2020, Reading Performance. Retrieved February 9, 2021, from https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cnb; and Mathematics Performance. Retrieved February 9, 2021, from https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cnc.
6 U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress, Results from the 2019 Mathematics and Reading Assessments at Grade 12. Retrieved February 9, 2021, from https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/mathematics/supportive_files/2019_infographic_G12_math_reading.pdf.
7 U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, NAEP PLUS. Are U.S. Students Prepared to Learn Online When Schools Need to be Closed? [Blog post]. Retrieved February 9, 2021, from https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/blog/online_learning.aspx.
8 The speed of the survey development and the pace of the data collection efforts led to policies and procedures for the experimental HPS that were not always consistent with traditional federal survey operations. For example, the timeline for the surveys meant that opportunities to follow up with nonrespondents were very limited. This has led to response rates of 1 to 10 percent, which are much lower than the typical target response rate set in most federal surveys. While the responses have been statistically adjusted so that they represent the nation and states in terms of geographic distribution, sex, race/ethnicity, age, and educational attainment, the impact of survey bias has not been fully explored.
9 On average, each household had 1.97 children during the period of September 2 to September 14, 2020.
10 The survey question refers to enrollment at any time during the 2020-21 school year.
11 Since this survey is designed to represent adults 18 years old and over, the percentages reflect the responses of adults concerning children under 18 within their households, not the percentages of the students themselves.
12 About 66 million adults reported that they had children under age 18 in the home enrolled at a public or private school for the period of April 23 to May 5, 2020.