Table E-16-1.  Percentage of 9th-grade students participating in math- and science-related school-sponsored activities, by sex and race/ethnicity: 2009

Sex and race/ethnicity	Activity				Number of math- or science-related activities
	Math-related1		Science-related1		At least one of these activities		More than one of these activities		None of these activities
Total2	9.8		6.4		13.4		4.1		86.6
Sex
Male	8.9		6.3		12.6		4.0		87.4
Female	10.7		6.5		14.2		4.2		85.8
Race/ethnicity
White	8.3		6.4		12.2		3.7		87.8
Black	12.5		5.4		15.3		3.9		84.7
Hispanic	10.5		5.5		13.4		3.9		86.6
Asian	17.3		13.0		22.3		10.7		77.7
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander	‡		‡		‡		‡		‡
American Indian/Alaska Native	9.1	!	‡		12.8	!	‡		87.2
Two or more races	10.5		7.6		14.2		5.3		85.8
Race/ethnicity by sex
Male
White	7.6		6.1		11.5		3.6		88.5
Black	12.2		5.8		15.4		3.8		84.6
Hispanic	9.2		5.5		12.1		3.8		87.9
Asian	18.4		11.5		22.8		10.5		77.2
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander	‡		‡		‡		‡		‡
American Indian/Alaska Native	10.9	!	‡		‡		‡		88.0
Two or more races	8.3		9.0		13.4		5.5		86.6
Female
White	9.0		6.7		13.0		3.8		87.0
Black	12.8		5.0		15.2		4.0		84.8
Hispanic	11.9		5.5		14.6		4.0		85.4
Asian	16.1		14.6		21.8		11.0		78.2
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander	‡		‡		‡		‡		‡
American Indian/Alaska Native	‡		‡		‡		‡		86.3
Two or more races	12.7		6.3		15.0		5.1		85.0

! Interpret data with caution. The coefficient of variation (CV) for this estimate is 30 percent or greater.

‡ Reporting standards not met. There are either too few cases or the coefficient of variation (CV) is 50 percent or greater.

1 Includes clubs, competitions, and camps.

2 Total includes other racial/ethnic groups not shown separately in the table.

NOTE: Data are based on student responses. Student reports about school-sponsored activities refer to the period “since the beginning of the last school year,” which for most of these students was 8th grade, or the fall of 2008. Data weighted by W1STUDENT. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, High School Longitudinal Study of 2009, Base-Year Public-Use Data File.