Title page
Contents
I. Overview 7
Purpose and Content of the Survey 7
Content of the Manual 7
II. Frame Creation 8
List Frame 8
Area Frame 8
Weighting 9
Variance Estimation 9
Producing Replicate Weights 9
Applying Replicate Weights 10
Approximate Sampling Errors 11
III. Data Collection 13
Data Collection Procedures 13
Mailings 13
Nonresponse Follow-up 14
Interviewer Training 14
Efforts to Increase Response Rates 14
Response Rates 15
Unit Response Rate 15
Item Response Rates 21
IV. Data Preparation 23
Questionnaire Check-in and Data Capture 23
Computer Pre-Edit 23
Computer Edit 23
Imputation 24
Donor Imputation 24
Analyst Imputation 24
Imputation Flags 24
V. Guide to the Public-Use Data File and Code Book 25
Categories of Variables 25
Composite Variables 26
Unique School Identifier 34
VI. User Notes and Cautions 35
Locale Code (Urbanicity) 35
Race/Ethnicity 35
Restricted-Use Data File 35
References 36
Appendix A. 2019-20 Private School Universe Survey Questionnaire 37
Appendix B. List of Variables and Record Layout of the Tab-Delimited ASCII File of the 2019-20 PSS Public-Use Data 54
Appendix C. 2019-20 Private School Universe Survey Public-Use Codebook 65
Table 1. Average PSS Design Effects (DEFF) and Square Root of the Average Design Effects (DEFT) by Selected School Characteristics: 2019-20 12
Table 2. PSS data collection time schedule: 2019-20 13
Table 3. Number of responding and nonresponding schools, out-of-scope cases, and school response rate, by frame: 2019-20 15
Table 4. Summary of 2019-20 PSS nonresponse bias statistics 17
Table 5. Base-weighted PSS school frame distribution, interviewed distribution, estimated bias, percent relative bias, standard errors, and t statistic,... 18
Table 6. Final weighted PA1:G28SS school frame distribution, interviewed distribution, estimated bias, percent relative bias, standard errors,... 20
Table 7. PSS item response rates for private schools: 2019-20 22