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Table 5. |
Percentage of children ages 6 to 18, by parent’s highest level of educational attainment and child’s race/ethnicity: 2008 |
Less than high school completion | High school completion1 | Some college | Associate's degree | Bachelor's or higher degree | |||||||||||
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Total | Bachelor's degree | Master's degree | Doctor's or first-professional degree | ||||||||||||
Parent and race/ethnicity | |||||||||||||||
Mother | |||||||||||||||
Total2 | 13.2 | 27.8 | 19.1 | 11.5 | 28.5 | 20.2 | 6.5 | 1.7 | |||||||
White | 4.6 | 26.4 | 20.2 | 13.1 | 35.7 | 25.0 | 8.5 | 2.3 | |||||||
Black | 12.9 | 35.5 | 23.6 | 11.2 | 16.8 | 12.5 | 3.5 | 0.7 | |||||||
Hispanic | 39.3 | 29.0 | 13.6 | 7.3 | 10.7 | 8.4 | 1.8 | 0.5 | |||||||
Asian | 14.6 | 20.5 | 6.7 | 7.7 | 50.6 | 35.1 | 12.4 | 3.1 | |||||||
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander | 8.8 | ! | 32.1 | 22.0 | ! | 12.6 | ! | 24.6 | ! | 17.4 | ! | 1.4 | ! | 5.8 | |
American Indian/Alaska Native | 19.4 | 27.2 | 23.1 | 14.2 | 16.1 | 12.2 | ‡ | ‡ | |||||||
Two or more races | 5.6 | 21.5 | 30.5 | 11.8 | 30.7 | 21.4 | 6.9 | 2.3 | |||||||
Father | |||||||||||||||
Total2 | 13.1 | 28.6 | 16.5 | 9.1 | 32.7 | 20.3 | 7.9 | 4.6 | |||||||
White | 5.8 | 28.6 | 17.4 | 9.8 | 38.5 | 23.6 | 9.2 | 5.6 | |||||||
Black | 11.2 | 35.0 | 21.1 | 11.6 | 21.0 | 14.2 | 5.0 | 1.8 | |||||||
Hispanic | 41.1 | 28.6 | 11.9 | 5.6 | 12.8 | 8.9 | 2.9 | 1.1 | |||||||
Asian | 10.5 | 17.6 | 7.5 | 7.8 | 56.6 | 30.7 | 15.3 | 10.7 | |||||||
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander | 2.4 | ! | 30.9 | ! | 18.0 | ! | 24.1 | ! | 24.6 | ! | 15.5 | ! | 4.6 | ! | 4.4 |
American Indian/Alaska Native | 14.0 | ! | 29.9 | 26.5 | 10.8 | ! | 18.7 | 12.7 | ! | 0.7 | ! | 5.3 | |||
Two or more races | 5.2 | 26.8 | 25.3 | 11.3 | 31.3 | 20.1 | 7.7 | 3.5 | |||||||
! Interpret data with caution. ‡ Reporting standards not met. 1 Includes high school diploma or equivalent. 2 Total includes other race/ethnicity categories not separately shown. NOTE: Parents include adoptive and stepparents but exclude parents not residing in the same household as their children. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Current Population Survey (CPS), Annual Social and Economic Supplement, 2008. |