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Digest of Education Statistics: 2006
Digest of Education Statistics: 2006

NCES 2007-017
July 2007


Table A-6. Maximum differences required for significance (90 percent confidence level) between sample subgroups from the "Status of the American Public School Teacher" survey: 2000-01
Size of first subgroup Size of second subgroup
100 200 300 400 500 600 700
100 11.6 10.1 9.5 9.2 9.0 8.9 8.8
200 10.1 8.2 7.5 7.1 6.9 6.7 6.6
300 9.5 7.5 6.7 6.3 6.0 5.8 5.7
400 9.2 7.1 6.3 5.8 5.5 5.3 5.2
500 9.0 6.9 6.0 5.5 5.2 5.0 4.8
600 8.9 6.7 5.8 5.3 5.0 4.7 4.6
700 8.8 6.6 5.7 5.2 4.8 4.6 4.4
SOURCE: National Education Association, Status of the American Public School Teacher, 2000-01.