Percentage of children age 4 and age 5 and not yet in kindergarten participating in various weekly nonparental care arrangements, by parent report that child cannot identify shapes, cannot recognize letters: 2019

Characteristic	Number of children (thousands)	Nonparental care arrangement					No weekly nonparental care arrangement
		At least one weekly nonparental care arrangement	Type¹
		At least one weekly nonparental care arrangement		Relative care	Nonrelative care	Center-based care²
Total³	4,473	80		21	12	91	20

Cannot identify any basic shapes such as a triangle, rectangle, circle, or square	127	60		‡	‡	88	40	!

Cannot recognize any letters of the alphabet	142	45		49	‡	73	55

!Interpret data with caution. The coefficient of variation (CV) for this estimate is between 30 and 50 percent.
‡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.
¹Among children with at least one weekly nonparental care arrangement.
²Center-based arrangements include day care centers, Head Start programs, preschools, prekindergartens, and other early childhood programs.
³Includes all children age 4 and age 5 and not yet in kindergarten.
NOTE: Children may have multiple weekly arrangements across the three types of care; therefore, a single child may be represented in multiple columns of this table. Detail may not sum totals because of rounding.
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).