Standard errors for the percentage distribution of 5- to 17-year-olds, by race/ethnicity and selected family characteristics: Selected years, 1979

Participation in Education: Standard Error Tables

Elementary/Secondary Education

Table S6-1. Standard errors for the percentage distribution of 5- to 17-year-olds, by race/ethnicity and selected family characteristics: Selected years, 1979–2006

Family characteristic	1979	1989	1992	1995	1999	2002	2004	2006

Total U.S. population
Parents’ education
Less than high school	†	0.15	0.14	0.13	0.13	0.11	0.11	0.11
High school diploma	†	0.34	0.33	0.29	0.28	0.26	0.25	0.25
Some college	†	0.25	0.27	0.30	0.30	0.30	0.30	0.29
Bachelor’s degree or higher	0.40	0.26	0.26	0.28	0.30	0.33	0.34	0.35
Family type
Two-parent household	0.75	0.72	0.70	0.69	0.67	0.68	0.67	0.67
Mother-only household	0.18	0.22	0.23	0.23	0.24	0.23	0.23	0.23
Father-only household	0.02	0.03	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.05	0.05
Poverty status
Poor	0.15	0.18	0.21	0.21	0.19	0.16	0.17	0.17
Near-poor	0.19	0.21	0.22	0.22	0.21	0.20	0.21	0.21
Nonpoor	0.66	0.61	0.57	0.57	0.61	0.64	0.63	0.62
Citizenship
U.S.-born	†	†	†	0.96	0.96	0.95	0.95	0.95
Naturalized U.S. citizen	†	†	†	#	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
Non-U.S. citizen	†	†	†	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.04
Immigration status
Born outside the 50 states and the District of Columbia	†	†	†	0.06	0.05	0.06	0.06	0.06
First generation	†	†	†	0.13	0.15	0.16	0.16	0.18
Second generation or more	†	†	†	0.82	0.80	0.79	0.78	0.76

Total White population
Parents’ education
Less than high school	†	0.08	0.07	0.06	0.05	0.05	0.04	0.04
High school diploma	†	0.35	0.33	0.29	0.26	0.24	0.23	0.22
Some college	†	0.27	0.30	0.31	0.32	0.31	0.32	0.30
Bachelor’s degree or higher	0.49	0.31	0.31	0.35	0.37	0.40	0.41	0.44
Family type
Two-parent household	0.81	0.80	0.78	0.77	0.75	0.76	0.75	0.75
Mother-only household	0.13	0.15	0.16	0.16	0.17	0.17	0.17	0.16
Father-only household	0.02	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.05	0.05
Poverty status
Poor	0.09	0.10	0.12	0.12	0.11	0.09	0.10	0.10
Near-poor	0.17	0.19	0.20	0.19	0.16	0.16	0.16	0.15
Nonpoor	0.75	0.71	0.68	0.69	0.73	0.74	0.74	0.75
Citizenship
U.S.-born	†	†	†	0.99	0.99	0.99	0.98	0.98
Naturalized U.S. citizen	†	†	†	†	#	#	#	#
Non-U.S. citizen	†	†	†	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
Immigration status
Born outside the 50 states and the District of Columbia	†	†	†	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
First generation	†	†	†	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06
Second generation or more	†	†	†	0.92	0.92	0.92	0.92	0.92

Total Black population
Parents’ education
Less than high school	†	0.24	0.22	0.19	0.17	0.14	0.14	0.13
High school diploma	†	0.39	0.41	0.35	0.36	0.35	0.35	0.33
Some college	†	0.25	0.24	0.32	0.32	0.33	0.33	0.33
Bachelor’s degree or higher	0.59	0.12	0.13	0.13	0.15	0.18	0.19	0.21
Family type
Two-parent household	0.44	0.39	0.38	0.34	0.36	0.38	0.36	0.35
Mother-only household	0.44	0.48	0.51	0.50	0.50	0.48	0.48	0.50
Father-only household	0.02	0.03	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.05	0.05	0.04
Poverty status
Poor	0.41	0.42	0.44	0.42	0.36	0.29	0.33	0.33
Near-poor	0.28	0.23	0.24	0.26	0.28	0.27	0.27	0.27
Nonpoor	0.31	0.35	0.32	0.33	0.36	0.44	0.39	0.40
Citizenship
U.S.-born	†	†	†	0.98	0.98	0.97	0.98	0.97
Naturalized U.S. citizen	†	†	†	#	#	#	#	#
Non-U.S. citizen	†	†	†	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.02	0.03
Immigration status
Born outside the 50 states and the District of Columbia	†	†	†	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03
First generation	†	†	†	0.05	0.06	0.08	0.09	0.09
Second generation or more	†	†	†	0.92	0.91	0.89	0.88	0.88

Total Hispanic population
Parents’ education
Less than high school	†	0.48	0.48	0.44	0.41	0.38	0.37	0.32
High school diploma	†	0.27	0.27	0.25	0.26	0.28	0.27	0.29
Some college	†	0.16	0.16	0.22	0.21	0.22	0.23	0.24
Bachelor’s degree or higher	1.06	0.09	0.09	0.09	0.12	0.13	0.13	0.15
Family type
Two-parent household	0.72	0.65	0.64	0.63	0.63	0.64	0.64	0.65
Mother-only household	0.17	0.29	0.28	0.27	0.26	0.26	0.26	0.25
Father-only household	0.02	0.03	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04
Poverty status
Poor	0.27	0.34	0.38	0.40	0.34	0.29	0.29	0.26
Near-poor	0.32	0.29	0.33	0.31	0.32	0.33	0.32	0.33
Nonpoor	0.41	0.36	0.29	0.30	0.35	0.39	0.39	0.41
Citizenship
U.S.-born	†	†	†	0.81	0.86	0.84	0.85	0.86
Naturalized U.S. citizen	†	†	†	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.01	0.01
Non-U.S. citizen	†	†	†	0.17	0.13	0.15	0.14	0.13
Immigration status
Born outside the 50 states and the District of Columbia	†	†	†	0.21	0.17	0.19	0.16	0.16
First generation	†	†	†	0.50	0.49	0.53	0.52	0.53
Second generation or more	†	†	†	0.29	0.34	0.29	0.31	0.31

† Not applicable.
# Rounds to zero.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Current Population Survey (CPS), March Supplement, selected years, 1979–2006.

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