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Statistics Publication Notice Education and Training Series: Pre-School and Childcare Statistics 2008

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Appendix 2: 95% Confidence Interval look-up table for childminder estimates

Percentages

Frequencies

Percentage reported

Half-width of 95% confidence interval

Number reported

Half-width of 95% confidence interval

5

1.7

300

100

10

2.4

600

130

15

2.8

800

150

20

3.1

1,100

170

25

3.4

1,400

190

30

3.6

1,700

200

35

3.7

1,900

210

40

3.9

2,200

210

45

3.9

2,500

220

50

3.9

2,800

220

55

3.9

3,000

220

60

3.9

3,300

210

65

3.7

3,600

210

70

3.6

3,900

200

75

3.4

4,100

190

80

3.1

4,400

170

85

2.8

4,700

150

90

2.4

5,000

120

95

1.7

5,200

100

Notes:
See background notes for explanation of confidence intervals.
In this year's figures, the "calibrated sample size" has been used to calculate the confidence intervals. This is necessary because the childminders were selected as a stratified sample and weighted to make the sample representative of the population. In previous years the actual sample size was used, which leads to confidence intervals that are smaller than the correct intervals.

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