Definitions: The share of children ages 3 to 4 not enrolled in nursery school or preschool school during the previous two months.
"Nursery
school" and "preschool" include any group or class of institution
providing educational experiences for children during the years
preceding kindergarten. Places where instruction is an integral part of
the program are included, but private homes that primarily provide
custodial care are not included. Children enrolled in programs sponsored
by federal, state or local agencies to provide preschool education to
young children--including Head Start programs--are considered as
enrolled in nursery school or preschool. Children enrolled in kindergarten are excluded from this analysis.
Due to small sample size, the 3-year American Community Survey was used to increase accuracy of the estimates.
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Data Source: Population Reference Bureau, analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 2005-07 to 2009-11 three-year American Community Survey.
Footnotes:
Updated November 2012.
S - Estimates suppressed when the confidence interval around the
percentage is greater than or equal to 10 percentage points. N.A. Data
not available. A 90 percent confidence interval for each estimate can be
found at
Children ages 3 to 4 not enrolled in preschool.
Note: The District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are
not included in maps and rankings because they are not states and therefore comparisons on many
indicators of child well being are not meaningful.