Percentage of children from age 3 through age 5 and not yet in kindergarten whose parents reported participating in home activities with child three or more times in the past week, by type of activity, poverty status of child's family, and child's race/ethnicity: 2019

Characteristic	Home activities with child three or more times in past week
Characteristic	Read to child		Told a story	Taught letters, words, or numbers		Sang songs		Worked on arts and crafts
Total	85		38	67		73		46

	At or above poverty threshold¹
Total	87		39	67		73		48

Child’s race/ethnicity
White, non-Hispanic	92		40	67		76		52
Black, non-Hispanic	78		37	74		75		40
Hispanic	80		33	63		68		42
Asian or Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic	82		39	66		65		47
Other race, non-Hispanic²	91		48	72		76		53
	Below poverty threshold¹
Total	73		33	67		72		37

Child’s race/ethnicity
White, non-Hispanic	85		42	68		81		44
Black, non-Hispanic	70		33	72		75		36
Hispanic	66		26	63		62		27
Asian or Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic	59	!	‡	44	!	47	!	‡
Other race, non-Hispanic²	77		48	77		81		68

‡Reporting standards not met. Either there are too few cases for a reliable estimate or the coefficient of variation (CV) is 50 percent or greater.
!Interpret data with caution. The coefficient of variation (CV) for this estimate is between 30 and 50 percent.
¹Determined by the federal government, the poverty threshold is the income necessary to meet the household's needs, given its size and composition. Income is collected in categories in the survey, rather than as an exact amount, and therefore the poverty measures used in this table are approximations of poverty. For detailed information on the poverty status calculation used in this table, see Early Childhood Program Participation: 2019 (https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2020/2020075.pdf).
²“Other race, non-Hispanic” includes American Indian/Alaska Native children who are not Hispanic and children who are two or more races and not Hispanic.
NOTE: Estimates represent 8,149,000 children from age 3 through age 5 and not yet in kindergarten.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Early Childhood Program Participation Survey of the 2019 National Household Education Surveys Program (ECPP-NHES:2019).