Private School Universe Survey (PSS) - Standard errors for Percentage distribution of private schools, by percentage minority students, and average percentage minority students, by selected characteristics: United States, 2001

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Standard errors for percentage distribution of private schools, by percentage minority students, and average percentage minority students, by selected characteristics: United States, 2001-02 (see the data table)
Selected characteristics	Percent minority students					Average percent minority students
Selected characteristics	None	1-9 percent	10-29 percent	30-49 percent	50 percent or more	Average percent minority students
Total	0.42	0.30	0.34	0.16	0.38	0.32

NCES typology
Catholic	0.10	0.24	0.16	0.06	0.25	0.23
Parochial	0.19	0.19	0.13	0.08	0.14	0.15
Diocesan	0.04	0.29	0.22	0.05	0.25	0.16
Private	0.08	1.47	0.94	0.31	1.42	1.29

Other religious	0.71	0.54	0.46	0.16	0.58	0.49
Conservative Christian	0.87	1.02	0.59	0.21	0.85	0.70
Affiliated	0.85	1.60	0.55	0.23	0.60	0.62
Unaffiliated	1.35	0.90	1.35	0.35	0.89	0.76

Nonsectarian	0.92	0.75	1.01	0.51	0.70	0.60
Regular	1.97	1.56	1.79	0.45	0.90	0.97
Special emphasis	0.82	1.37	1.32	1.06	0.85	0.86
Special education	0.14	0.45	0.78	0.77	1.27	1.00

School level
Elementary	0.55	0.39	0.26	0.17	0.25	0.27
Secondary	0.88	0.98	0.43	0.50	0.66	0.43
Combined	0.73	0.71	0.85	0.30	0.94	0.77

Program emphasis
Regular elementary/ secondary	0.52	0.37	0.39	0.12	0.39	0.36
Montessori	0.43	2.19	2.22	1.56	1.23	1.32
Special program emphasis	3.91	1.66	2.09	1.55	1.32	1.32
Special education	0.17	0.44	0.86	0.73	1.56	1.26
Vocational/ technical	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡
Alternative	4.28	3.14	1.89	0.67	1.82	1.89
Early childhood	7.27	1.47	2.31	‡	2.29	2.66

Size (number of students)
Less than 50	1.25	0.82	1.09	0.45	0.98	0.82
50-149	0.73	0.92	0.52	0.16	0.54	0.51
150-299	0.39	0.31	0.23	0.10	0.27	0.25
300-499	0.02	0.25	0.30	0.07	0.21	0.18
500-749	0.02	0.30	0.17	0.04	0.23	0.21
750 or more	0.04	0.53	0.53	0.23	0.81	0.63

Region
Northeast	0.10	0.29	0.12	0.04	0.37	0.28
Midwest	1.24	0.78	0.53	0.11	0.42	0.40
South	0.71	0.59	0.81	0.32	0.79	0.69
West	0.63	0.96	0.89	0.49	1.25	0.94

Community type
Central city	0.22	0.37	0.51	0.25	0.58	0.48
Urban fringe/large town	0.42	0.44	0.50	0.21	0.35	0.29
Rural/small town	1.17	0.72	0.83	0.27	0.92	0.69
‡ Reporting standards not met.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 2001-2002.

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