Table 5.1b. Percentage distribution of 8th-grade students in public schools according to frequency of reading for fun, by race/ethnicity: 2007

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Table 5.1b. Percentage distribution of 8th-grade students in public schools according to frequency of reading for fun, by race/ethnicity: 2007

Race/ethnicity	Never or hardly ever	1–2 times a month	1–2 times a week	Almost every day
Total¹	34	24	24	18
White	35	22	22	21
Black	28	27	29	16
Hispanic	37	27	24	12
Asian/Pacific Islander	21	23	32	23
American Indian/Alaska Native	36	22	24	17

¹ Total includes other race/ethnicity categories not separately shown.

NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2007 Reading Assessment, retrieved January 2008 from http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/nde/.

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