| Characteristic | 1999 | 2003 | 2007 | ||||||||
| Number | Percentage distribution | Home- schooling rate1 |
Number | Percentage distribution | Home- schooling rate1 |
Number | Percentage distribution | Home- schooling rate1 |
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| Total | 850,000 | 100.0 | 1.7 | 1,096,000 | 100.0 | 2.2 | 1,508,000 | 100.0 | 2.9 | ||
| Homeschooled entirely | 697,000 | 82.0 | 100.0 | 898,000 | 82.0 | 100.0 | 1,266,000 | 84.0 | 100.0 | ||
| Homeschooled and enrolled in school part time | 153,000 | 18.0 | 100.0 | 198,000 | 18.0 | 100.0 | 242,000 | 16.0 | 100.0 | ||
| Enrolled in school less than 9 hours per week | 107,000 | 12.6 | 100.0 | 137,000 | 12.5 | 100.0 | 173,000 | 11.5 | 100.0 | ||
| Enrolled in school 9–25 hours per week | 46,000 | 5.4 | 100.0 | 61,000 | 5.6 | 100.0 | 69,000 | 4.6 | 100.0 | ||
| Race/ethnicity2 | |||||||||||
| White | 640,000 | 75.3 | 2.0 | 843,000 | 77.0 | 2.7 | 1,159,000 | 76.8 | 3.9 | ||
| Black | 84,000 | 9.9 | 1.0 | 103,000 | 9.4 | 1.3 | 61,000 | 4.0 | 0.8 | ||
| Hispanic | 77,000 | 9.1 | 1.1 | 59,000 | 5.3 | 0.7 | 147,000 | 9.8 | 1.5 | ||
| Other | 49,000 | 5.8 | 1.9 | 91,000 | 8.3 | 3.0 | 141,000 | 9.3 | 3.4 | ||
| Sex | |||||||||||
| Male | 417,000 | 49.0 | 1.6 | 569,000 | 51.9 | 2.2 | 633,000 | 41.9 | 2.4 | ||
| Female | 434,000 | 51.0 | 1.8 | 527,000 | 48.1 | 2.1 | 875,000 | 58.1 | 3.5 | ||
| Number of children in the | |||||||||||
| household | |||||||||||
| One child | 120,000 | 14.1 | 1.5 | 110,000 | 10.1 | 1.4 | 187,000 | 12.4 | 2.2 | ||
| Two children | 207,000 | 24.4 | 1.0 | 306,000 | 28.0 | 1.5 | 412,000 | 27.3 | 2.0 | ||
| Three or more children | 523,000 | 61.6 | 2.4 | 679,000 | 62.0 | 3.1 | 909,000 | 60.3 | 4.1 | ||
| Number of parents in the | |||||||||||
| household | |||||||||||
| Two parents | 683,000 | 80.4 | 2.1 | 886,000 | 80.8 | 2.5 | 1,348,000 | 89.4 | 3.6 | ||
| One parent | 142,000 | 16.7 | 0.9 | 196,000 | 17.9 | 1.5 | 115,000 | 7.6 | 1.0 | ||
| Nonparental guardians | 25,000 | 2.9 | 1.4 | 14,000 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 45,000 | 3.0 | 2.1 | ||
| Parents’ participation in | |||||||||||
| the labor force | |||||||||||
| Two parents, one in | |||||||||||
| labor force | 444,000 | 52.2 | 4.6 | 594,000 | 54.2 | 5.6 | 808,000 | 53.6 | 7.5 | ||
| Two parents, both in | |||||||||||
| labor force | 237,000 | 27.9 | 1.0 | 274,000 | 25.0 | 1.1 | 509,000 | 33.8 | 2.0 | ||
| One parent, in labor force | 98,000 | 11.6 | 0.7 | 174,000 | 15.9 | 1.4 | 127,000 | 8.4 | 1.3 | ||
| No parent in labor force | 71,000 | 8.3 | 1.9 | 54,000 | 4.9 | 1.8 | 64,000 | 4.3 | 1.5 | ||
| Household income | |||||||||||
| $25,000 or less | 262,000 | 30.9 | 1.6 | 283,000 | 25.8 | 2.3 | 239,000 | 15.9 | 2.1 | ||
| $25,001–50,000 | 278,000 | 32.7 | 1.8 | 311,000 | 28.4 | 2.4 | 364,000 | 24.1 | 3.4 | ||
| $50,001–75,000 | 162,000 | 19.1 | 1.9 | 264,000 | 24.1 | 2.4 | 405,000 | 26.8 | 3.9 | ||
| $75,001 or more | 148,000 | 17.4 | 1.5 | 238,000 | 21.7 | 1.7 | 501,000 | 33.2 | 2.7 | ||
| Parents’ education | |||||||||||
| High school diploma | |||||||||||
| or less | 160,000 | 18.9 | 0.9 | 269,000 | 24.5 | 1.7 | 206,000 | 13.7 | 1.4 | ||
| Some college or | |||||||||||
| vocational/technical | 287,000 | 33.7 | 1.9 | 338,000 | 30.8 | 2.1 | 549,000 | 36.4 | 3.8 | ||
| Bachelor’s degree | 213,000 | 25.1 | 2.6 | 274,000 | 25.0 | 2.8 | 444,000 | 29.4 | 3.9 | ||
| Graduate/professional | |||||||||||
| degree | 190,000 | 22.3 | 2.3 | 215,000 | 19.6 | 2.5 | 309,000 | 20.5 | 2.9 | ||
| 1 The homeschooling rate is the percentage of the total subgroup that is homeschooled. For example, in 2007, some 2.4 percent of all school-age males were homeschooled. 2 Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. For more information on race/ethnicity, see supplemental note 1. |
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| NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Homeschooled students are school-age children (ages 5–17) in a grade equivalent to at least kindergarten and not higher than 12th grade who receive instruction at home instead of at a public or private school either all or most of the time. Excludes students who were enrolled in public or private school more than 25 hours per week and students who were homeschooled only because of temporary illness. For more information on the National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES), see supplemental note 3. | |||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Parent Survey of the 1999 National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES), Parent and Family Involvement in Education Survey of the 2003 and 2007 NHES. | |||||||||||
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