Percentage of students from kindergarten through eighth grade receiving after-school care from a relative, by type of relative and student and family characteristics: 2005

After-School Programs and Activities: 2005

NCES 2006-072
May 2006

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Table 3. Percentage of students from kindergarten through eighth grade receiving after-school care from a relative, by type of relative and student and family characteristics: 2005
		Relative who provides after-school care
Characteristic	Number of students (thousands)	Grand- parent¹	Aunt or uncle	Sibling²	All other relatives
Total	5,274	58	18	23	7
Student's grade
K–2	1,852	68	19	13	7
3–5	1,966	54	18	24	9
6–8	1,455	51	16	34	6
Student's sex
Male	2,730	59	18	23	8
Female	2,544	57	18	23	7
Student's race/ethnicity
White, non-Hispanic	2,632	61	12	27	7
Black, non-Hispanic	1,215	52	30	16	9
Hispanic	941	59	23	18	7
Asian or Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic	130	69	21	9	8
Other race, non-Hispanic³	357	48	11	37	7
Family type
Two parents	2,864	56	15	29	5
One parent	2,101	62	21	16	9
Nonparent guardian(s)	309	49	27	11	19
Parents' language spoken most at home⁴
Both/only parent(s) speak(s) English	4,778	59	17	23	8
One of two parents speaks English	147	46	18	30	12
No parent speaks English	349	43	37	21	4
Mother's level of education⁵
Less than a high school diploma	378	50	26	20	11
High school/GED	1,680	58	23	19	7
Vocational/technical or some college	1,808	56	16	27	6
Bachelor's degree	646	65	12	26	3
Graduate or professional degree	465	62	10	25	7
Mother's school enrollment status⁵
Enrolled	767	64	19	20	8
Not enrolled	4,210	57	18	24	6
Mother's employment status⁵
35 or more hours per week	3,567	57	17	25	6
Less than 35 hours per week	852	61	17	24	6
Looking for work	207	51	39	7	4
Not in the labor force	351	66	19	10	9
Mother's work shift ^{5, 6}
Regular shift	3,994	57	17	26	6
Variable shift	426	71	15	17	10
Neighborhood conditions⁷
Concern regarding neighborhood health and safety conditions	949	54	25	20	9
No concern regarding neighborhood health and safety conditions	4,324	59	17	24	7
Household income
$25,000 or less	1,448	58	27	16	7
$25,001 to $50,000	1,624	55	19	22	10
$50,001 to $75,000	1,130	60	13	26	7
$75,001 to $100,000	588	61	8	32	5
$100,001 or more	483	58	12	30	5
Poverty status⁸
At or above poverty threshold	4,175	59	15	25	8
Below poverty threshold	1,098	55	30	16	7
¹ Estimates include students who receive care from grandmothers or grandfathers.
² Estimates include students who receive care from a biological, step, foster, or adopted sister or brother.
³ “Other race, non-Hispanic” includes children who were multiracial and not of Hispanic ethnicity, or who were American Indian or Alaska Native, or were not Hispanic, White, Black, Asian, or Pacific Islander.
⁴ Complete descriptions of the categories for parents' language are as follows: (1) “Both/only parent(s) learned English as child(ren) or currently speak(s) English in the home,” (2) “One of two parents learned English as a child or currently speaks English in the home,” and (3) “No parent learned English as a child and both/only parent(s) currently speak(s) a non-English language in the home.”
⁵ Students without mothers living in the household are not included in estimates related to mother's education, enrollment, employment status, or work shift.
⁶ Work shifts were collapsed into two categories: regular and variable work shifts. A regular work shift is one with set hours. A variable shift is one that changes from days to evenings or nights regardless of whether the hours are set by the employer or the employee. The number of hours worked was not considered in the creation of this variable.
⁷ Parents or guardians respond “yes” or “no” to the question: “Are there any conditions in your neighborhood that make you worried about the health or safety of ((CHILD)/any of the children) in your household?”
⁸ Students are considered poor if they were living in households with incomes below the poverty threshold, which is a dollar amount determined by the federal government to meet the household's needs, given its size and composition.
NOTE: Estimates include students in kindergarten through eighth grade, not older than 15 years, not homeschooled, and with at least one weekly relative care arrangement. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Percentages may sum to more than 100 percent because students may have had more than one relative care arrangement.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, After-School Programs and Activities Survey of the 2005 National Household Education Surveys Program (ASPA-NHES: 2005).

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