Percentage of children about 9 months of age who engaged in selected activities with a family member daily in a typical week, by child and family characteristics: 2001

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Early Development of Children

Table 35-1. Percentage of children about 9 months of age who engaged in selected activities with a family member daily in a typical week, by child and family characteristics: 2001–02

Child and family characteristic	Read stories	Told stories	Sung to	Taken on errands	Played peek-a-boo	Played outside

Total	33	27	74	64	68	47
Age
Less than 10 months	31	26	73	63	68	46
11–13 months	32	27	73	65	69	47
14–22 months	44	37	73	70	64	59
Sex
Male	32	27	73	64	68	48
Female	33	27	74	64	68	46
Race/ethnicity¹
American Indian	18	23	64	75	64	46
Asian/Pacific Islander	26	25	71	38	73	43
Black	23	24	73	63	61	45
White	41	31	75	65	72	47
Hispanic	21	21	70	64	64	48
Birth weight²
Normal	33	27	73	64	68	47
Low	29	28	76	58	70	44
Very low	27	28	73	51	66	38
Poverty status
Poor	22	24	67	64	64	48
Nonpoor	36	28	75	64	70	47
Mother’s education
Less than high school	22	22	66	64	65	50
High school diploma or equivalent	27	25	72	67	70	44
Some college	35	29	78	65	69	44
Bachelor’s degree or higher	48	33	79	59	70	48
Family type
Two parents, with other siblings	31	25	71	63	65	46
Two parents, without other siblings	38	32	78	62	75	48
One parent, with other siblings	24	25	72	62	65	46
One parent, without other siblings	29	27	73	71	70	48
Primary language spoken in the home
English	36	29	75	65	70	46
Other than English	18	19	67	57	63	49
Mother’s employment
35 hours or more	29	26	73	59	67	41
Less than 35 hours	36	27	75	66	69	46
Unemployed	27	26	75	68	71	50
Not in labor force	34	28	73	65	68	51
Number of family risk factors³
Zero	41	31	77	64	70	46
One	25	25	73	64	67	47
Two or more	20	20	65	63	64	51

¹ American Indian includes Alaska Native, Black includes African American, Pacific Islander includes Native Hawaiian, and Hispanic includes Latino. Race catagories exclude Hispanic origin unless specified.
² Normal birth weight is more than 5.5 pounds; low birthweight is more than 3.3 to 5.5 pounds; and very low birthweight is 3.3 pounds or less.
³ Family risk factors include living below the poverty level, living in a household where the primary language was not English, having a mother whose highest education was less than a high school diploma or equivalent, and living in a single-parent household. See supplemental note 1 for more information on mother’s education and poverty.
NOTE: While the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS–B) was designed to collect information on children about 9 months of age (i.e., 8 to 10 months), children were assessed as young as 6 months and as old as 22 months. Seventy-two percent of the children were between 8 and 10 months at the time of the assessment, and 84 percent were between 8 and 11 months. See supplemental note 3 for more information.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS–B), Restricted-Use File (NCES 2004–093), previously unpublished tabulation (January 2005).

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