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TABLE 30

Percentage of 6th- through 12th-Grade Students Who Participated in Volunteer Activities and Their Total Hours of Service

Participation in Regular Community Service During the Curent School Year by Selected Student, Household and School

Characteristics, 1996 and 1999

Regular service

Any Once or 10 or 11 to 34 35 to 80 More than

participation twice fewer hours hours hours 80 hours

Characteristic 1996 1999 1996 1999 1996 1999 1996 1999 1996 1999 1996 1999

Total 49 52 23 24 7 7 8 8 6 7 5 6

Grade

6 to 8 47 48 24 25 8 7 3 3

9 to 12 50 55 23 24 6 6 8 9 7 8 7 8

Gender

Male 4 5 4 7 2 3 2 4 7 6 7 7 4 5 5 5

Female 53 57 24 24 7 8 9 9 7 8 6 7

Race and Hispanic origin

White, non-Hispanic 53 54 25 27 8 8 9 9 6 7 5 6

Black, non-Hispanic 43 47 21 21 5 6 5 8 6 6 6 6

Hispanica 38 39 17 20 6 4 6 6 3 4 6 5

Other race-ethnicity 50 53 23 22 — 10 10 — 79 ——

Language spoken most at home

English 50 53 24 25 7 7 8 8 6 7 5 6

Other 32 33 17 16 ——— ——— ——

Parents’ highest level of education

Less than high school graduate 34 37 18 19 — 5 — 4 — 4 — 5

High school graduate/GED 42 45 20 22 6 6 7 6 5 5 5 5

Vocational/technical school

or some college 48 50 23 24 7 6 8 9 5 6 5 6

College graduate 58 62 29 28 7 9 7 10 8 8 7 7

Graduate or professional school 64 65 29 29 9 10 11 10 9 9 6 7

School type

Public, assigned 47 51 23 24 7 7 7 8 5 6 5 5

Public, chosen 50 48 22 21 7 6 9 8 6 6 5 8

Private, church-related 69 72 28 31 9 8 13 13 10 12 8 9

Private, not church-related 57 68 28 29 ——— ——— ——

School size

Under 300 48 53 23 27 9 8 9 6 4 6 4 5

300 – 599 50 50 25 24 7 7 7 8 5 5 5 5

600 – 999 48 51 21 24 8 7 8 7 5 7 5 5

1,000 or more 49 54 24 24 5 6 7 9 7 8 6 8

School practice

Requires and arranges service 56 59 27 28 7 7 9 10 7 7 7 8

Arranges service only 52 54 25 25 8 8 8 9 6 7 6 6

Neither requires nor

arranges service 30 29 14 13 4 4 5 3 3 3 3 —

— = not available

aPersons of Hispanic origin may be of any race.

Note: Because of rounding, detail may not add to totals. “Ungraded” and home-schooled students were not included in this analys is.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Household Education Survey.

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