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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Increase the proportion of children whose family read to them at least 4 days per week — EMC‑02 Data

Status: Getting worse

  Getting worse
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Most Recent Data:
55.1 percent (2020-21)

Target:
63.2 percent

Desired Direction:
Increase desired

Baseline:
58.3 percent of children aged 5 years and under had parents or caregivers who reported that someone in their family read to the child 4 or more days in the past week in 2016-17

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Children whose family reads to them at least 4 days per week, 2016-17 to 2020-21 ◊
(percent)
Increase desired

Population 2016-17 2018-19 2020-21
Total
58.3
CI 56.6 / 59.9
SE 0.835
55.0
CI 53.3 / 56.5
SE 0.816
55.1
CI 53.8 / 56.4
SE 0.663