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NAEP Technical DocumentationDevelopment of Initial School Nonresponse Cells for the 2012 Economics Assessment

The cells for nonresponse adjustments are generally functions of the school sampling strata. Sampling strata definitions differ for public and private schools.

Public Schools

For public school samples, initial weighting cells were formed using the following nesting cell structure:

• census region,

• collapsed urbanicity (collapsed urban-centric locale) stratum, and
• race/ethnicity classification.

Private Schools

For private school samples, initial weighting cells were formed using the following nesting cell structure:

• affiliation (Catholic or non-Catholic),
• census region, and
• collapsed urbanicity (collapsed urban-centric locale) stratum.

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