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Contents
1. What were the homeschooling, full-time virtual education, and instruction-at-home rates in 2019? 4
2. Who participated in homeschooling and in full-time virtual education? 5
3. Why did parents choose to homeschool? 8
Technical Notes 11
Appendix A. Supporting Tables 16
Appendix B. Item Quality Analyses 20
Figure 1. Enrollment, homeschooling, full-time virtual education, and instruction-at-home rates for students ages 5 to 17 in kindergarten through grade... 4
Figure 2. Homeschooling rate and full-time virtual education rate for students ages 5 to 17 in kindergarten through grade 12 or the grade equivalent,... 5
Figure 3. Homeschooling rate and full-time virtual education rate for students ages 5 to 17 in kindergarten through grade 12 or the grade equivalent,... 5
Figure 4. Homeschooling rate and full-time virtual education rate for students ages 5 to 17 in kindergarten through grade 12 or the grade equivalent,... 6
Figure 5. Homeschooling rate and full-time virtual education rate for students ages 5 to 17 in kindergarten through grade 12 or the grade equivalent,... 6
Figure 6. Homeschooling rate and full-time virtual education rate for students ages 5 to 17 in kindergarten through grade 12 or the grade equivalent,... 7
Figure 7. Percent of homeschooled students ages 5 to 17 in kindergarten through grade 12 or the grade equivalent whose parents selected each factor... 8
Figure 8. Percent of homeschooled students ages 5 to 17 in kindergarten through grade 12 or the grade equivalent whose parents selected each factor... 9
Exhibits
Exhlbit 1. Variables used in the main body of the report 12
Table A.1. Homeschooling, full-time virtual education, and instruction-at-home rates for students ages 5 to 17 in kindergarten through grade 12 or the grade... 16
Table A.2. Percentage of students ages 5 to 17 in kindergarten through grade 12 or the grade equivalent who are in full-time virtual education and in-person... 18
Table A.3. Enrollment, homeschooling, full-time virtual education, and instruction-at-home rates for students ages 5 to 17 in kindergarten through grade... 18
Table A.4. Percentage of students ages 5 to 17 in kindergarten through grade 12 or the grade equivalent who were homeschooled, by reasons parents gave... 19
Table B.1. Rounded sample counts and percentage distributions for selected homeschooling items in the Screener and Parent and Family Involvement in... 21
Table B.2. Rounded sample counts and percentage distributions for selected virtual education items in the Parent and Family Involvement in Education survey: 2018-19 23
Table B.3. Unweighted item nonresponse rates for homeschooling items in the Parent and Family Involvement in Education survey: 2018-19 25
Table B.4. Unweighted item nonresponse rates for homeschooling items in the Parent and Family Involvement in Education survey: 2018-19 and 2015-16 26
Table B.5. Unweighted item nonresponse rates for virtual education items in the Parent and Family Involvement in Education survey: 2018-19 27
Table B.6. Consistency between Screener survey enrollment item and homeschoollng items in the Parent and Family Involvement in Education (PFI) survey,... 28