***Public and Private School Principle in the United States: A Statistical Profile, 1987-88 to 1993-94*****Table B22.�Standard errors for Table A22:  Percentage of public secondary school principals            who view certain issues as serious problems in their schools, by sex, age,            experience, and race-ethnicity of principals: 1993-94**----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------                                                           Five most frequently identified problems in public secondary schools                                    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------                                     Lack of parent                                                               Students comePrincipal characteristics              involvement      Student apathy   Student alcohol use      Poverty      unprepared to learn----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Total                                     0.65               0.55               0.48               0.64               0.51Sex  Male                                    0.63               0.61               0.51               0.62               0.55  Female                                  2.29               2.02               1.41               2.17               1.55Age  Under 35                                2.71               3.55               3.19               3.05               1.90  35-39                                   2.65               1.86               1.91               2.18               2.15  40-44                                   1.29               1.60               1.27               1.60               1.17  45-49                                   1.29               0.94               0.88               0.93               1.00  50-54                                   1.64               1.36               1.35               1.07               1.25  55 and over                             1.79               1.80               1.52               1.99               1.42Experience as a principal  Fewer than 3 years                      1.74               1.42               1.13               1.36               1.36  3 to 9 years                            0.82               0.91               0.83               1.03               0.83  10 years or more                        1.11               0.86               0.84               0.93               0.81Race-ethnicity  American Indian/Alaska Native           5.61               4.24               4.28               4.96               3.69  Asian/Pacific Islander                  6.25               9.55               4.10               3.45               5.12  Black non-Hispanic                      2.73               1.77               0.52               2.92               2.09  White non-Hispanic                      0.65               0.58               0.53               0.56               0.56  Hispanic                                6.18               5.13               2.29               5.08               4.29----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------NOTE:  Problems listed are the five most frequently identified in secondary schools, in order of frequency.SOURCE:  U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Schools and Staffing Survey:  1993-94 (Public School Principal Questionnaire).