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Fifty-seven percent of children between 6 and 17 years old participate in at least one after-school extracurricular activity, according to a new report released today from the U.S. Census Bureau. The report found that children were more likely to participate in sports (35 percent) than clubs or lessons like music, dance and language (both around 29 percent).
A Child’s Day: Living Arrangements, Nativity, and Family Transitions: 2011 uses statistics from the Survey of Income and Program Participation to examine aspects of a child’s well-being, examining their participation in extracurricular activities, and how participation related to a child’s living arrangements, parental nativity status and household or economic transitions.
“The well-being of children is an area of interest to researchers and policymakers who focus on the social, cognitive and economic security of children,” said demographer Lynda Laughlin of the Census Bureau’s Fertility and Family Statistics Branch and the report’s author. “Participation in extracurricular activities is one indicator we study.”
The report found that household structure was associated with children’s involvement in extracurricular activities. Children living with married parents were more likely to participate in sports, clubs or lessons than children living with cohabiting parents or a single parent.
Other findings:
Children’s Living Arrangements
Foreign-Born Parents
Family Transitions
Other measures of child well-being examined in the report and detailed table package include television viewing rules, school engagement, parental interaction with children, and early child care experiences.
These data were collected in the Survey of Income and Program Participation. As in all surveys, these data are subject to sampling and nonsampling error. For further information on the source of the data and accuracy of the estimates, including standard errors and confidence intervals, go to <//www.census.gov/programs-surveys/sipp/tech-documentation/source-accuracy-statements/source-accuracy-statements-2008.html>.
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