Digest of Education Statistics: 2008
Digest of Education Statistics: 2008

NCES 2009-020
March 2009


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.