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NAEP Weighting Procedures → Weighting Procedures and Variance Estimation for the 2001 National Main Assessment → Computation of School Weights → Computation of Poststratification Adjustments → Poststratification Procedures → Poststratification Adjustments, Grade 8 U.S. History National Main Assessment (Accommodations Permitted [R3]): 2001

NAEP Technical DocumentationPoststratification adjustments, grade 8 U.S. history national main assessment (accommodations permitted [R3]): 2001

PS cell	Race/ethnicity	Region	Age group	Poststratification adjustment	Control total	Sum of pre-post weights
1	Black	All U.S.	Age 13	0.998	336,238	337,055
2	Black	All U.S.	Not age 13	1.371	218,494	159,408
3	Hispanic	All U.S.	Age 13	0.724	342,244	472,827
4	Hispanic	All U.S.	Not age 13	1.132	232,430	205,375
5	Other race/ethnicity	All U.S.	Age 13	0.829	143,239	172,842
6	Other race/ethnicity	All U.S.	Not age 13	1.384	76,168	55,016
7	Non-Hispanic White	Northeast Census reg	Age 13	0.936	374,844	400,472
8	Non-Hispanic White	Northeast Census reg	Not age 13	1.237	154,677	125,009
9	Non-Hispanic White	Midwest Census reg	Age 13	1.033	515,457	498,852
10	Non-Hispanic White	Midwest Census reg	Not age 13	1.391	270,133	194,206
11	Non-Hispanic White	South Census reg	Age 13	0.956	508,345	532,003
12	Non-Hispanic White	South Census reg	Not age 13	1.365	273,608	200,383
13	Non-Hispanic White	West Census reg	Age 13	1.432	362,144	252,863
14	Non-Hispanic White	West Census reg	Not age 13	1.628	112,957	69,372
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2001 U.S. History Assessment.

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