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Definition

Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage (ICSEA) indicates the socio-educational backgrounds of students.

Representation

Data Type NUMBERSTRING
Maximum character length 4

Comments

The ICSEA is a scale that represents levels of educational advantage. ICSEA values are on a scale, which has a mean of 1000 and a standard deviation of 100. ICSEA values range from around 500 (representing extremely disadvantaged backgrounds) to about 1300 (representing schools with students from very advantaged backgrounds).

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