Home activities with young children - 2019: Percentage of children from age 3 through age 5 and not yet in kindergarten whose parents reported participating in home activities with child three or more times in the past week, by child's race/ethnicity, with detailed American Indian/Alaska Native categories

Race/ethnicity	Home activities with child three or more times in past week
Race/ethnicity	Read to child	Told a story		Taught letters, words, or numbers	Sang songs	Worked on arts and crafts
Total	85	38		67	73	46
Child’s race/ethnicity
White, non-Hispanic	91	40		67	77	51
Black, non-Hispanic	75	36		73	75	38
Hispanic	77	31		63	66	38
Asian or Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic	80	38		65	64	46
Other race, non-Hispanic¹	88	48		73	77	56

Detailed race/ethnicity categories for children reported as “other race” regardless of Hispanic origin²
Other race, Hispanic and non-Hispanic³	88	44		73	77	54
American Indian/Alaska Native only and American Indian/Alaska Native and one or more additional races, Hispanic and non-Hispanic⁴	84	43		66	73	54
American Indian/Alaska Native only, Hispanic and non-Hispanic⁵	76	27	!	66	58	40
Two or more races, excluding children with American Indian/Alaska Native origins, Hispanic and non-Hispanic	90	44		77	79	54

!Interpret data with caution. The coefficient of variation (CV) for this estimate is between 30 and 50 percent.
¹ Includes American Indian/Alaska Native children who are not Hispanic and children who are two or more races and not Hispanic.
² Includes American Indian/Alaska Native children and children who are two or more races. Use caution when comparing data with children's race/ethnicity categories because the same children represented in the categories below are represented in the Hispanic and/or other race, non-Hispanic categories above.
³ Includes American Indian/Alaska Native children and children who are two or more races, including persons of Hispanic ethnicity.
⁴ Includes children who are both American Indian/Alaska Native and other races, including persons of Hispanic ethnicity.
⁵ Includes American Indian/Alaska Native children only, including persons of Hispanic ethnicity.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Early Childhood Program Participation Survey of the 2019 National Household Education Surveys Program (ECPP-NHES:2019).