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housing characteristics and the number of children, and the strength of those relationships. <br /> Basic summary statistics, such as the average number of public school children per household <br /> (student generation rates) and the percentage of new housing units occupied by people without <br /> children in the public school system, were also compiled. <br /> Each of the steps used to attain the results are described in further detail in the body of <br /> the report. <br /> The key findings of this report are summarized below. <br /> • In the majority of statistical tests run for the report, the results were <br /> insignificant due to the large variation in the observations. <br /> • The only notable relationship between the number of public school children in <br /> new housing and housing characteristics found in this study is for the number of <br /> bedrooms in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School District. This relationship <br /> indicates that there is approximately half a child more on average in new <br /> housing with four or more bedrooms than in new housing with three or fewer <br /> bedrooms. <br /> • The student e <br /> g neration rate calculated in this report for the Chapel Hill- <br /> Carrboro School District is higher than that calculated in the Technical Report, <br /> but the rate for the Orange County School District is lower than in the Technical <br /> Report. <br /> • <br /> 2 <br />