Table J3. Percentage of public 2002 10th graders and 2009 9th graders who had access to an anthropology course in high school, by region of the country and urbanicity (ELS:2002, HSLS:09)

    Students that had access to an
anthropology course
      Students that did not have access to an
anthropology course
 
Characteristic ELS:2002 HSLS:09   ELS:2002 HSLS:09
Total    11.4   8.8     88.6 91.2
               
Region                
Northeast   8.5 ! 9.5 !   91.5 90.5
Midwest   10.9   7.0 !   89.1 93.0
South   7.3   6.4     92.7 93.6
West   20.7   14.5     79.3 85.5
               
Urbanicity                
Urban   15.2 9.3 !   84.8 90.7
Suburban   11.5   11.6     88.5 88.4
Rural   7.4 ! 6.7     92.6 93.3
! Interpret data with caution. Estimate is unstable because the standard error represents more than 30 percent of the estimate.
NOTE: ELS:2002 data includes 2002 10th graders who had graduated public high school with a diploma by spring 2004. HSLS:09 data includes 2009 9th graders who had graduated public high school with a diploma by spring 2013. F1TRSCWT weight was used for this crosstabulation.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09), "2013 Update and High School Transcript File."