Percent and standard error for public elementary schools reporting types of music instruction or classes offered at the school during regular school hours, and of those schools, percent and standard error reporting the percent of students enrolled in those music subjects: School year 1998

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April 2012

Arts Education in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools: 1999–2000 and 2009–10

Table 136.	Percent and standard error for public elementary schools reporting types of music instruction or classes offered at the school during regular school hours, and of those schools, percent and standard error reporting the percent of students enrolled in those music subjects: School year 1998–99

Music subject	Offered subject		Percent of students enrolled¹
	Offered subject		25 percent or less				26 to 50 percent			51 to 75 percent			More than 75 percent
	Percent	Standard error	Percent		Standard error	Standard error	Percent		Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Standard error	Percent		Standard error	Standard error

General music	92	(1.5)	1!	(0.3)		3		(0.9)		2!		(0.6)		94		(1.3)
Chorus	52	(1.8)	41	(2.7)		25		(2.2)		10		(1.8)		24		(2.7)
Band	48	(2.2)	53	(3.1)		30		(2.7)		13		(2.3)		4!		(1.4)
Strings/orchestra	28	(1.7)	74	(4.0)		16		(3.0)		5!		(1.7)		6!		(2.2)
Other music subjects	8	(1.0)	51	(6.7)		13!		(5.0)		7!		(3.3)		29		(5.9)

! Interpret data with caution; the coefficient of variation is greater than or equal to 30 percent.

1 Percents are based on the percentage of schools that offered each music subject (92 percent that offered general music, 52 percent that offered chorus, 48 percent that offered band, 28 percent that offered string/orchestra, and 8 percent that offered other music subjects).)

NOTE: The data presented in this table may differ from previously published information because missing data from the 1999–2000 surveys were imputed for analysis in this report.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Fast Response Survey System, “Elementary School Arts Education Survey: Fall 1999,” FRSS 67E, 1999–2000.