Table 15 A. Community Services by Social Characteristics:                                    29
Households with Children Under 18 with No Children in School, Satisfactory Public Schools,
Preference for Different School for a Child, and Children Eating Enough, 1998
Numbers in thousands

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|Characteristics           |          |            |Satisfactory|   Prefer   |  Children  |
|                          |          |No children |   public   | different  |   eating   |
|                          |          | in school  |  schools   |   school   |   enough   |
|                          |  Total   |------------+------------+------------+------------|
|                          |Households|  Percent   |  Percent   |  Percent   |  Percent   |
|--------------------------+----------+------------+------------+------------+------------|
|Households with children  |          |            |            |            |            |
|  Total                   |    38,312|        10.2|        87.0|        17.7|        98.0|
|Age of householder        |          |            |            |            |            |
|  15 to 29                |     5,846|        25.2|        87.7|        18.8|        97.3|
|  30 to 44                |    23,100|         8.7|        87.0|        17.7|        96.3|
|  45 to 64                |     8,658|         4.5|        86.2|        16.8|        98.8|
|  65 or older             |       708|         5.0|        88.8|        18.6|        99.7|
|Sex of householder        |          |            |            |            |            |
|  Male                    |    21,009|        10.5|        87.3|        16.7|        98.7|
|  Female                  |    17,303|         9.8|        86.6|        18.8|        97.1|
|Race of householder       |          |            |            |            |            |
|  White                   |    30,508|        10.6|        86.6|        17.0|        98.4|
|  Black                   |     5,870|         8.6|        88.4|        21.9|        95.4|
|  Other                   |     1,933|         9.6|        88.9|        14.4|        96.0|
|Ethnicity of householder  |          |            |            |            |            |
|  Hispanic                |     5,103|         9.0|        89.6|        17.3|        92.6|
|  White non-Hispanic      |    25,778|        10.9|        86.0|        17.0|        99.0|
|Household structure       |          |            |            |            |            |
|  Non-family alone        |         7|           .|           .|           .|       100.0|
|  Non-family with others  |       443|         9.6|        86.1|        22.9|        99.4|
|  Married, no children    |         8|           .|           .|           .|       100.0|
|  Married with children   |    26,955|        10.8|        87.1|        16.4|        96.8|
|  Unmarried, no children  |         3|           .|           .|           .|       100.0|
|  Unmarried with children |    10,896|         8.8|        86.6|        20.5|        88.8|
|Householder disability    |          |            |            |            |            |
|  Disabled                |     2,657|         6.4|        85.9|        22.7|        95.8|
|  Not disabled            |    35,654|        10.5|        87.1|        17.3|        98.2|
|Health insurance coverage |          |            |            |            |            |
|  Not insured             |    10,275|         9.8|        87.2|        17.6|        94.9|
|  Insured                 |    28,036|        10.3|        86.9|        17.7|        98.7|
|Housing tenure            |          |            |            |            |            |
|  Home owner              |    25,374|         9.1|        87.2|        16.8|        98.9|
|  Renter                  |    12,938|        12.5|        86.6|        19.4|        96.1|
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Survey of Income and Program Participation, 1996 Panel, Wave 8
 . Represents or rounds to zero.