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NAEP Technical DocumentationJurisdictions Using Achievement Data or Median Household Income in Stratification for the 2007 State Assessment 

This table shows whether achievement data or median household income was used as a stratification variable for participating jurisdictions. Some states were certainty jurisdictions for both fourth and eighth grades. These states were excluded from the table below since no sampling is required for certainty jurisdictions.

Jurisdictions using achievement data or median household income in stratification, state assessment, by grade: 2007

Jurisdiction	Grade 4		Grade 8
	Achievement	Income	Achievement	Income
Alabama	YES	NO	YES	NO
Alaska	YES	NO	YES	NO
Arizona	YES	NO	YES	NO
Arkansas	YES	NO	YES	NO
California	YES	NO	YES	NO
Colorado	YES	NO	YES	NO
Connecticut	YES	NO	YES	NO
Florida	YES	NO	NO	YES
Georgia	YES	NO	YES	NO
Hawaii1	YES	NO	NO	NO
Idaho	YES	NO	YES	NO
Illinois	YES	NO	YES	NO
Indiana	YES	NO	YES	NO
Iowa	YES	NO	YES	NO
Kansas	YES	NO	YES	NO
Kentucky	YES	NO	YES	NO
Louisiana	YES	NO	YES	NO
Maine	YES	NO	YES	NO
Maryland	YES	NO	YES	NO
Massachusetts	YES	NO	YES	NO
Michigan	YES	NO	YES	NO
Minnesota	YES	NO	YES	NO
Mississippi	YES	NO	YES	NO
Missouri	YES	NO	YES	NO
Montana	NO	YES	YES	NO
Nebraska	NO	YES	NO	YES
Nevada	YES	NO	NO	YES
New Hampshire	YES	NO	NO	YES
New Jersey	YES	NO	YES	NO
New Mexico	YES	NO	NO	YES
New York	YES	NO	YES	NO
North Carolina	YES	NO	YES	NO
North Dakota1	YES	NO	NO	NO
Ohio	YES	NO	YES	NO
Oklahoma	NO	YES	YES	NO
Oregon	YES	NO	YES	NO
Pennsylvania	NO	YES	YES	NO
Rhode Island1	YES	NO	NO	NO
South Carolina	YES	NO	YES	NO
South Dakota	NO	YES	NO	YES
Tennessee	YES	NO	YES	NO
Texas	YES	NO	YES	NO
Utah	YES	NO	NO	YES
Vermont1	YES	NO	NO	NO
Virginia	YES	NO	YES	NO
Washington	YES	NO	YES	NO
West Virginia	YES	NO	YES	NO
Wisconsin	YES	NO	YES	NO
Other jurisdictions
Puerto Rico	NO	YES	NO	YES
1 The state was a certainty jurisdiction for eighth grade only. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2007.

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