Participation in Education

Elementary/Secondary Enrollment

Table S-6-2. Standard errors for the number and percentage of school-age children who were homeschooled, by reasons parents gave as important and most important for homeschooling: 2007

Reason	Important		Most important
Reason	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
A desire to provide religious or moral instruction	113,300	2.29	77,900	3.83
A concern about environment of other schools	111,300	2.48	60,400	3.44
A dissatisfaction with academic instruction at other schools	103,600	3.27	49,000	3.20
Other reasons	71,600	3.86	36,300	2.23
A desire to provide a nontraditional approach to child’s education	102,700	4.55	26,900	1.86
Child has other special needs	55,400	3.31	15,100	1.02
Child has a physical or mental health problem	31,500	1.94	11,300	0.75
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Parent and Family Involvement in Education Survey of the 2007 National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES).

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