Table 1. Percentage of preprimary children ages 3-5 who were enrolled in center-based early childhood care and education programs, by poverty status and race ethnicity: 2006-07

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Table 1. Percentage of preprimary children ages 3-5 who were enrolled in center-based early childhood care and education programs, by poverty status and race ethnicity: 2006-07

Child characteristics	Number of children ages 3-5 who are not yet enrolled in kindergarten (thousands)	Percentage	Standard error
Total	8,686	100	†

Poverty status¹
Poor	1,934	40.9	2.92
Nonpoor	6,751	59.6	1.16

Child's race/ethnicity²
White	4,664	58.5	1.46
Black	1,311	65.3	5.42
Hispanic	1,899	39.1	2.35

Poverty status and race/ethnicity
Poor
White	499	45.9	7.05
Black	492	60.0	8.65
Hispanic	736	29.9	3.66

Nonpoor
White	4,164	60.0	1.42
Black	819	68.5	7.77
Hispanic	1,163	44.9	3.05
† Not applicable ¹ Poor is defined to include families below the poverty threshold; nonpoor is defined to include families whose incomes are at or above the poverty threshold. ² Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Included in the total, but not shown separately, are children from other racial/ethnic groups. NOTE: Estimates are based on children who have not yet entered kindergarten. Center-based programs include day care centers, Head Start programs, preschool, nursery school, prekindergarten, and other early childhood programs. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. This table was created as an update to the following table: http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/2007/section1/table.asp?tableID=662. SOURCE: U.S Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, School Readiness Survey of the National Household Education Survey (NHES), 2007.

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