Title page
Contents
I. Overview 8
Purpose and Content of the Survey 8
Content of the Documentation 8
II. Frame Creation 9
List Frame 9
Area Frame 10
Certainty PSUs 10
Noncertainty PSUs 10
Total Area Frame Sample 11
III. Data Collection 12
Time Frame of the Survey 12
Data Collection Procedures 12
Initial Mailing 12
Questionnaire Mailings and Reminder Postcards 12
Nonresponse Follow-up 13
Interviewer Training 15
Status at the End of Data Collection 15
IV. Response Rates 17
Survey Response Rates 17
Item Response Rates 22
V. Data Preparation and Imputation 24
Questionnaire Check-in 24
Data Capture 24
Reformatting 24
Merging Data Files 24
Name and Address Updates 24
Preliminary Interview Status 24
Computer Pre-Edit 24
Computer Edit 25
Final Interview Status 26
Imputation 27
Donor Imputation 27
Analyst Imputation 27
Changes to PSS Variables During Imputation 28
VI. Weighting and Variance Estimation 29
Weighting 29
Variance Estimation 30
Producing Replicate Weights 30
Applying Replicate Weights 30
VII. Quality of PSS Data 32
Reviewing the Quality of PSS Data 32
Area-Frame Contribution to Estimates 32
Capture-Recapture Estimate of PSS Coverage 35
Comparability With Other Estimates 35
Current Population Survey Data 35
National Catholic Educational Association Data 36
Prior PSS Data 36
VIII. Information on Data Files 38
Availability of Data 38
Restricted-Use Data File 38
Public-Use Data File 38
IX. User Notes and Cautions 39
Locale Code (Urbanicity) 39
Race/Ethnicity 39
References 40
Appendix A. Key Terms for PSS 41
Appendix B. 2013-14 PSS Questionnaire 44
Appendix C. Private School Lists Received and Processed 60
Appendix D. 2013-14 PSS Area Frame Counties 63
Appendix E. Selected Weighted Response Rate Tables 69
Appendix F. Pre-Edit Rejections of PSS Data and Changes Made During the Pre-Edit and Edit 74
Appendix G. Changes Made During Imputation 82
Appendix H. Variable Categories Used in Developing Adjustment Factor Cells for Weighting 87
Table 1. Number and percentage of PSS cases, by source: 2013-14 9
Table 2. PSS data collection time schedule: 2013-14 12
Table 3. Number and percentage of PSS cases in telephone follow-up, by response status and telephone center: 2013-14 13
Table 4. Number and percentage of PSS cases in field follow-up, by response status: 2013-14 15
Table 5. Number and percentage of PSS cases, by interview status at end of data collection: 2013-14 16
Table 6. Number and percentage of completed PSS interviews at end of data collection, by mode of data collection: 2013-14 16
Table 7. Weighted and unweighted number of PSS interviews and noninterviews, and weighted response rates, by frame: 2013-14 17
Table 8. Weighted and unweighted number of PSS interviews and noninterviews, and weighted response rates for traditional private schools, by frame: 2013-14 17
Table 9. Weighted and unweighted number of PSS interviews and noninterviews, and weighted response rates for kindergarten-terminal private schools, by frame: 2013-14 18
Table 10. Summary of 2013-14 PSS nonresponse bias statistics 19
Table 11. Base-weighted PSS school frame distribution, interviewed distribution, estimated bias, percent relative bias, standard errors, and t statistic, by affiliation membership and reporting characteristics: 2013-14 20
Table 12. Final weighted PSS school frame distribution, interviewed distribution, estimated bias, percent relative bias, standard errors, and t statistic, by affiliation membership and reporting characteristics: 2013-14 21
Table 13. PSS item response rates for private schools: 2013-14 23
Table 14. Summary of changes made to PSS questionnaire variables during the pre-edit and edit: 2013-14 25
Table 15. Number of PSS cases, by preliminary and final interview status and the percentage change between preliminary and final interview status: 2013-14 27
Table 16. Summary of changes made to PSS questionnaire variables during imputation, by type of change: 2013-14 28
Table 17. Weighted number of traditional private schools by frame and percentage of total schools from the area frame, by private school typology: 2013-14 33
Table 18. Weighted number of traditional private school students by frame and percentage of total students from the area frame, by private school typology: 2013-14 33
Table 19. Weighted number of traditional private school teachers (headcount) by frame and percentage of total teachers from the area frame, by private school typology: 2013-14 34
Table 20. Weighted number of kindergarten-terminal private schools, students, and teachers (headcount) by frame and the percentage of schools, students, and teachers from the area frame, by private school three-level typology: 2013-14 34
Table 21. Weighted number of PSS Catholic schools, students, and teachers compared to those of the National Catholic Educational Association, by level: 2013-14 36
Table 22. Weighted number of private schools, students, and teachers, by level: 1999-2000, 2001-02, 2003-04, 2005-06, 2007-08, 2009-10, 2011-12 and 2013-14 37
Table C-1. Private school association lists whether received or processed: 2013-14 61
Table C-2. State agency early childhood center lists, by state, selection for follow-up, and whether received or processed: 2013-14 62
Table D-1. PSS area frame counties, by PSS county number, state, and certainty/sample status: 2013-14 64
Table E-1. Weighted and unweighted number of PSS interviews and noninterviews, and weighted response rates, by private school typology: 2013-14 70
Table E-2. Weighted and unweighted number of PSS interviews and noninterviews, and weighted response rates, by religious or nonsectarian orientation of school: 2013-14 71
Table E-3. PSS item response rates for traditional private schools: 2013-14 72
Table E-4. PSS item response rates for kindergarten-terminal private schools: 2013-14 73
Table F-1. Number and percentage of pre-edit rejections of PSS data, by rejection reason: 2013-14 75
Table F-2. Number of changes made to PSS variables during the pre-edit: 2013-14 78
Table F-3. Number of changes made to PSS variables during the edit: 2013-14 80
Table G-1. PSS imputation variables: 2013-14 83
Table G-2. PSS imputation matching variables and collapsing order: 2013-14 84
Table G-3. Number of changes made to PSS variables during imputation: 2013-14 85